TY - BOOK ID - 96511888 TI - Meat matters : butchers, politics, and market culture in eighteenth-century Paris PY - 2006 SN - 1580462111 9786612080586 128208058X 1580466818 PB - Suffolk : Boydell & Brewer, DB - UniCat KW - Meat industry and trade KW - Butchers KW - History KW - Government policy KW - Meat consumption KW - Packing industry KW - Food industry and trade KW - Paris. KW - economic change. KW - eighteenth century. KW - meat trade. KW - social class. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:96511888 AB - In this book, Watts examines why meat mattered to a growing number of Parisians and explores the political, economic and cultural matters of the meat trade in order to illuminate more fully the changing world of Old Regime Paris. In eighteenth century Paris, municipal authorities, guild officers, merchant butchers, stall workers, and tripe dealers pledged to provide a steady supply of healthful meat to urban elites and the working poor. 'Meat Matters' considers the formation of the butcher guild and family firms, debates over royal policy and regulation, and the burgeoning role of consumerism and public health. The production and consumption of meat becomes a window on important aspects of eighteenth-century culture, society, and politics, on class relations, and on economic change. Watts's examination of eighteenth-century market culture reveals why meat mattered to Parisians, as onetime subjects became citizens. Sydney Watts is assistant professor of history at the University of Richmond. She is currently working on the history of Lent and secular society in early modern France. ER -