Paris, Capital of ModernityCollecting David Harvey's finest work on Paris during the second empire, Paris, Capital of Modernity offers brilliant insights ranging from the birth of consumerist spectacle on the Parisian boulevards, the creative visions of Balzac, Baudelaire and Zola, and the reactionary cultural politics of the bombastic Sacre Couer. The book is heavily illustrated and includes a number drawings, portraits and cartoons by Daumier, one of the greatest political caricaturists of the nineteenth century. |
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Adolphe Thiers Balzac barricades basilica Baudelaire became Belleville benefit Blanquists body politic boulevards bourgeois bourgeoisie building Cabet capital capitalist central city’s commerce Communards Commune construction Corbon craft workers Daumier depicted economic Emperor FIGURE finally finance financial find first Flaubert flow forced Fourier France French Gaillard Haussmann housing idea imperial influence influential July Monarchy labor market labor power labor process land large—scale Les Halles living Louis Louis Napoleon Marx modernity movement Napoleon ofthe Old Goriot organization Paris Paris Commune Parisian industry percent Pereires population Poulot problem production Proudhon provincial radical reflected relations rents Republic republican revolution revolutionary Rohault de Fleury role Saint—Simon Saint—Simonian Second Empire sentiment Sentimental Education small—scale social socialist sought space spatial spectacle speculation streets struggle Thiers tion tradition transformation urban utopian Varlin wage woman women working—class workshops Zola