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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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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Yates, Alexia M. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2015]
Colección:Harvard Historical Studies ; 186
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Sumario: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.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (368 p.) : 33 halftones, 2 maps, 1 graph, 4 tables
ISBN:9780674495098
9783110439687
9783110438734
9783110665901
Acceso:restricted access