Bibliograph

Selling Paris, property and commercial culture in the fin-de-siècle capital, Alexia M. Yates

Type

Label

Selling Paris, property and commercial culture in the fin-de-siècle capital, Alexia M. Yates

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-344) and index

Illustrations

illustrationsmaps

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Selling Paris

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

bibliographydictionaries

Oclc number

925305730

Responsibility statement

Alexia M. Yates

Series statement

Harvard historical studies, 186Ebsco eBook Collection

Sub title

property and commercial culture in the fin-de-siècle capital

Summary

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.--, Provided by publisher

Table Of Contents

Introduction: selling Paris -- The business of the city -- Seeing like a speculator -- The problem of property -- The unceasing marketplace -- Marketing the metropolis -- Districts of the future -- Epilogue: illicit speculation and impossible markets

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