Selling Paris Property and Commercial Culture in the Fin-De-siècle Capital |
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| Author:
| Yates, Alexia M. |
| Series title: | Harvard Historical Studies |
| ISBN: | 978-0-674-08821-4 |
| Publication Date: | Oct 2015 |
| Publisher: | Harvard University Press
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $60.00 |
Book Description:
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Besieged during the Franco-Prussian War, its buildings damaged, its finances mired in debt, Paris was a city in crisis. Alexia Yates chronicles the private actors and networks, practices and politics, that spurred the largest building boom of the nineteenth century, turning city-making into big business in the French capital.
Besieged during the Franco-Prussian War, its buildings damaged, its finances mired in debt, Paris was a city in crisis. Alexia Yates chronicles the private actors and networks, practices and politics, that spurred the largest building boom of the nineteenth century, turning city-making into big business in the French capital.