Contents: 1. Did the Cake of Custom Break? - Charles Tilly 2. Property, Labor, and the Emergence of Socialism in France, 1789-1848 - William H. Sewell, Jr. 3. Patterns of Proletarianization: Parisian Tailors and Lodève Woolens Workers - Christopher H. Johnson 4. The Transformation of Social Solidarities in Nineteenth-Century Toulouse - Ronald Aminzade 5. Household and Craft in an Industrializing Economy: The Case of the Silk Weavers of Lyons - George J. Sheridan, Jr. 6. Incident at the Statue of the Virgin Mary: The Conflict of Old and New in Nineteenth-Century Limoges - John M. Merriman 7. The Three Ages of Industrial Discipline in Nineteenth-Century France - Michelle Perrot 8. Getting and Spending: The Family Budgets of English Industrial Workers in 1890 - Lynn Hollen Lees 9. On the Bourgeoisie: A Psychological Interpretation - Peter Gay 10. After the Commune: Alcoholism, Temperance, and Literature in the Early Third Republic - Susanna Barrows 11. The Victorian Conflict between Science and Religion: A Professional Dimension - Frank M. Turner
John Mustard Merriman was Charles Seymour Professor of History at Yale University. He earned his B.A. (1968) and Ph.D. (1972) at the University of Michigan. Merriman received Yale University’s Harwood F. Byrnes/Richard B. Sewall Teaching Prize in 2000, and was awarded a Docteur Honoris Causa in France in 2002, and the “Medal of Meritorious Service to Polish Education” (Medal Kimisji Edukacji Narodowej) awarded by the Ministry of Education of Poland in 2009.