"Nord succeeds in making sense out of a very confusing movement. This should be the definitive book on the shopkeeper movement in Paris, and the book to read on the lower middle class in France. The author writes in a fluid and entertaining fashion, and his work will interest those who follow French history in the modern period and connoisseurs of Parisian history." - Lynn Hunt, University of California, Berkeley; Philip G. Nord is professor of history at Princeton University. He is the author of The Republican Moment: Struggles for Democracy in Nineteenth-Century France (1995) and Impressionists and Politics: Art and Democracy in the Nineteenth Century (2000)."

• Introduction to the Transaction Edition, Acknowledgements, Bibliographical Abbreviations, Introduction, I. THE ORIGINS OF SHOPKEEPER PROTEST, II. THE POLITICS OF SHOPKEEPER PROTEST, Conclusion, Bibliography, Index

"Nord succeeds in making sense out of a very confusing movement. This should be the definitive book on the shopkeeper movement in Paris, and the book to read on the lower middle class in France. The author writes in a fluid and entertaining fashion, and his work will interest those who follow French history in the modern period and connoisseurs of Parisian history." - Lynn Hunt, University of California, Berkeley; Philip G. Nord is professor of history at Princeton University. He is the author of The Republican Moment: Struggles for Democracy in Nineteenth-Century France (1995) and Impressionists and Politics: Art and Democracy in the Nineteenth Century (2000)."

• Introduction to the Transaction Edition, Acknowledgements, Bibliographical Abbreviations, Introduction, I. THE ORIGINS OF SHOPKEEPER PROTEST, II. THE POLITICS OF SHOPKEEPER PROTEST, Conclusion, Bibliography, Index

"Nord succeeds in making sense out of a very confusing movement. This should be the definitive book on the shopkeeper movement in Paris, and the book to read on the lower middle class in France. The author writes in a fluid and entertaining fashion, and his work will interest those who follow French history in the modern period and connoisseurs of Parisian history." - Lynn Hunt, University of California, Berkeley; Philip G. Nord is professor of history at Princeton University. He is the author of The Republican Moment: Struggles for Democracy in Nineteenth-Century France (1995) and Impressionists and Politics: Art and Democracy in the Nineteenth Century (2000)."

• Introduction to the Transaction Edition, Acknowledgements, Bibliographical Abbreviations, Introduction, I. THE ORIGINS OF SHOPKEEPER PROTEST, II. THE POLITICS OF SHOPKEEPER PROTEST, Conclusion, Bibliography, Index