Selling Paris : : Property and Commercial Culture in the Fin-de-siècle Capital / / Alexia M. Yates.
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 busi...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2015] ©2015 |
| Year of Publication: | 2015 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Harvard Historical Studies ;
186 |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (368 p.) :; 33 halftones, 2 maps, 1 graph, 4 tables |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction: Selling Paris
- 1. The Business of the City
- 2. Seeing Like a Speculator
- 3. The Problem of Property
- 4. The Unceasing Marketplace
- 5. Marketing the Metropolis
- 6. Districts of the Future
- Epilogue: Illicit Speculation and Impossible Markets
- Appendix
- Notes
- Acknowledgments
- Index