Format:
Online-Ressource (397 p.)
ISBN:
9780520232532
Content:
The sights, sounds, and smells of life on the streets and in the houses of eighteenth-century Paris rise from the pages of this marvelously anecdotal chronicle of a perpetually alluring city during one hundred years of extraordinary social and cultural change. An excellent general history as well as an innovative synthesis of new research, The Making of Revolutionary Paris combines vivid portraits of individual lives, accounts of social trends, and analyses of significant events as it explores the evolution of Parisian society during the eighteenth century and reveals the city's pivotal role i
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Description based upon print version of record
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Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; PART I: The Social Order of Customary Paris; 1. The Patterns of Urban Life; 2. The Poor You Have with You Always; 3. Not Servants but Workers; 4. Each According to His Station; PART II: City Government and Popular Discontent; 5. Bread, Police, and Protest; 6. Wolves in Sheep's Clothing: Religion and Politics; PART III: Making a New Rome; 7. Affaires du Temps; 8. Secularization; 9. Urbanism or Despotism?; 10. The Integration of the City; 11. Plebeian Culture, Metropolitan Culture; 12. The City and the Revolution
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Epilogue: The New ParisNotes; Selected Reading; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W;
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780520938397
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780520243279
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe The Making of Revolutionary Paris
Language:
English
Subjects:
History
Keywords:
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