Selling Paris :: property and commercial culture in the fin-de-siècle capital /

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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1. Verfasser: Yates, Alexia M., 1980- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2015.
Schriftenreihe:Harvard historical studies ; 186.
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Zusammenfassung: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.--
Beschreibung:1 online resource (353 pages) : illustrations
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780674495098
0674495098