HIST 1095 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Class Conflict, Infant Mortality, Material Issue
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Themes of lecture: the city is a place of social division, the commune, 1871, as a revolution about urban class differences. Hobsbawn p. 201: the commune was a workers" insurrection [ those arrested were] workers. A river of blood ran btw the workers of paris and their. Hobsbawn marxist theorist: the nature of class and how it inherently caused problems. For harvey and endpoint of haussmann"s paris is a new special framework for a more stable, effective, modern capitalist city. After banking crisis, napoleon goes to war with prussia. The paris commune, march may 1871. 47k civilians dead; starvation; middle class leave the city. Part 1: the city as a theatre of social conflict. Paris in the 1870s is the great center of consumption, tourism, and pleasure. The cafes, the departments stores, the fashion industry, the grand expositions . But it also produces a radical or revolutionary politics political radicalism. Frequently, if not always assumes an urban dimension .
