Paris, Capital of Modernity

Paris, Capital of Modernity
ISBN-10
1135945861
ISBN-13
9781135945862
Category
History
Pages
384
Language
English
Published
2004-06-01
Publisher
Routledge
Author
David Harvey

Description

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.

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