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Paris, Capital of Europe : from the Revolution to the Belle Epoque
- Title
- Paris, Capital of Europe : from the Revolution to the Belle Epoque / Johannes Willms ; translated by Eveline L. Kanes.
- Author
- Willms, Johannes, 1948-2022.
- Publication
- New York : Holmes & Meier, [1997]
- ©1997
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Details
- Description
- ix, 436 pages : illustrations, maps; 24 cm
- Summary
- "Johannes Willms, a historian and journalist, recreates the years from 1789 - the city on the brink of upheaval - to the First World War. He masterfully weaves various social, political, artistic and economic threads into a vivid tapestry, allowing the general reader as well as the scholar the rare opportunity to grasp the city in Proustian detail. One reads not only of the estates, the Terror, and the Commune, but also of street life and repression, social customs, Napoleonic architecture, the growth of trade and commerce, work and wages, health and hygiene, morality, class struggles, crime, and of course art and entertainment."--BOOK JACKET.
- Uniform Title
- Paris. English
- Alternative Title
- Paris.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Note
- Translation of: Paris: Hauptstadt Europas, 1789-1914.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 406-426) and index.
- Contents
- Bk. 1. Paris on the Eve of the Revolution -- Bk. 2. Capital of the Revolution, 1789-1799 -- Bk. 3. Capital of Europe, 1800-1815 -- Bk. 4. Growth and Stagnation, 1815-1830 -- Bk. 5. Between Two Revolutions, 1830-1848 -- Bk. 6. The Second Empire, 1852-1870 -- Bk. 7. From Commune to Belle Epoque, 1871-1914 -- App. Map 1. Administrative Organization of Napoleonic Paris -- App. Map 2. Old and New Divisions of Paris -- App. Map 3. Major Elements of the Parisian Street System After Haussmann -- App. Map 4. The Paris Metro in 1914.
- ISBN
- 0841912459
- 9780841912458
- LCCN
- 94038075
- OCLC
- ocm31240706
- 31240706
- SCSB-14638760
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library