WEEKLY SUPPLEMENT / European library

No. 670

*** ANTOINETTE FAUVE-CHAMOUX (Ed.): Domestic Service and the Formation of European Identity. Understanding the Globalization of Domestic Work, 16th-21st Centuries. Peter Lang (32 Hochfeldstrasse, Postfach 746, CH-3000 Bern 9. e-mail: [e-mail] - Internet: www.peterlang.net).2004, 573 pp. ISBN 3-03910-589-2.

Picking up this book and reading the title, one might be tempted to imagine that it is off the beaten track. What has domestic service, the work of maids, nurses and other...