The Personality of Paris
Landscape and Society in the Long-Nineteenth Century
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Product details:
- Publisher Bloomsbury Academic
- Date of Publication 24 August 2023
- Number of Volumes Paperback
- ISBN 9781350252639
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages248 pages
- Size 234x156 mm
- Language English
- Illustrations 66 bw illus; 14 colour images in 8pp plates Maps 531
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Long description:
What was the personality of 19th-century Paris? To answer that question, this book eschews the conventional narrative and chronological route taken by most histories of Paris. Instead, it thematically analyses the complex personality traits of Paris from the onset of the Revolution of 1789 to the beginning of the Great War.
Starting with the topographical and cultural legacies that late 18th-century Paris inherited from its foundation in pre-Roman and Roman times and from its medieval infancy and early-modern adolescence, The Personality of Paris unpacks the social and material complexity of the 19th-century city. It considers the role of immigration in the making of Parisians and in the city's growth from half a million in 1801 to almost three million in 1911. It examines the making of its distinctive landscape through the construction of monuments and architectural icons, through its massive re-modelling by Napoléon III and Baron Haussmann, through its five world exhibitions, through its emphasis on food, fashion and leisure, and through the ways in which Parisians sought rural release from urban pressure. Finally, the book considers the self-harm done to the person of 19th-century Paris by revolutions and wars and the damage inflicted on it by 20th-century hubristic politicians and architects.
Table of Contents:
List of Illustrations
Prologue
1. Beginnings: The Founding of Paris and its Growth to 1800
2. Peopling Paris: The Making of 'Parisians'
3. Monumentalising Paris: commemorating its Past
4. Modernising Paris: Rebuilding the City
5. Symbolising Paris: Architectural Iconography
6. Projecting Paris: Five World Exhibitions
7. Enjoying Paris: Food, Fashion and Fun
8. Escaping Paris: (Re)discovering Nature and the Provinces
9. Assassinating Paris: Revolutions, Wars and the Twentieth Century
Epilogue
Bibliography
Index
The Personality of Paris: Landscape and Society in the Long-Nineteenth Century
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