Paris, Capital of Modernity
by David Harvey
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Collecting David Harvey's finest work on Paris during the second empire, Paris, Capital of Modernity offers brilliant insights ranging from the birth of consumerist spectacle on the Parisian boulevards, the creative visions of Balzac, Baudelaire and Zola, and the reactionary cultural politics of the bombastic Sacre Couer. The book is heavily illustrated and includes a number drawings, portraits and cartoons by Daumier, one of the greatest political caricaturists of the nineteenth century.Tags
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A beautifully written story of the social and geographical transformation of Paris during the Industrial Revolution, illustrated with old photographs and drawings, recounted through the lens of the working class. The level of brutality and conflict between republicans, monarchist, and the Communards, is shocking to the modern reader and creates an appreciation of the bloody history behind the great city of Paris.
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David Harvey received a Bachelor's degree and Ph.D. in geography from Cambridge University. After graduating in 1961, he joined the geography department at Bristol University as a lecturer. In the following years, he held teaching positions at Johns Hopkins and Oxford universities. He has written numerous books including Justice Nature and the show more Geography of Differences, The Urban Experience, The Condition of Postmodernity, and An Enquiry into the Origins of Cultural Change. He has received many honors, among them the Outstanding Contributor Award of the Association of American Geographers, the Anders Retzuis Gold Medal of the Swedish Society of Anthropology and Geography, and the Vautrin Lud International Geography Prize. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
Common Knowledge
- Original title
- Paris, capital of modernity
- Original publication date
- 2006
- People/Characters
- Baron Haussmann
- Important places
- Paris, France
Classifications
- Genres
- Nonfiction, History, Sociology, General Nonfiction
- DDC/MDS
- 944.36107 — History & geography History of Europe France and Monaco Champagne; Ile de France; Lorraine Île-de-France Paris
- LCC
- DC715 .H337 — History of Europe, Asia, Africa and Oceania France – Andorra – Monaco History of France Local history and description Paris
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- Languages
- 5 — English, French, Portuguese, Spanish, Turkish
- Media
- Paper, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 11
- ASINs
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