Subterranean Cities : The World beneath Paris and London, 1800-1945 /
The underground has been a dominant image of modern life since the late eighteenth century. A site of crisis, fascination, and hidden truth, the underground is a space at once more immediate and more threatening than the ordinary world above. In Subterranean Cities, David L. Pike explores the repres...
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Idioma: | Inglés |
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Ithaca, NY :
Cornell University Press,
[2018]
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Preface and Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1. The New Life Underground
- 2. The Modern Necropolis
- 3. Charon's Bark
- 4. Urban Apocalypse
- Notes
- Index