Author: | Alexia M. Yates | ISBN: | 9780674915985 |
Publisher: | Harvard University Press | Publication: | October 6, 2015 |
Imprint: | Harvard University Press | Language: | English |
Author: | Alexia M. Yates |
ISBN: | 9780674915985 |
Publisher: | Harvard University Press |
Publication: | October 6, 2015 |
Imprint: | Harvard University Press |
Language: | English |
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.