Paris dreams, Paris memories : the city and its mystique /
How did Paris become the world favorite it is today? Charles Rearick argues that we can best understand Paris as several cities in one, each with its own history and its own imaginary shaped by dream and memory. Paris has long been at once a cosmopolitan City of Light and of modernity, a patchwork o...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
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Stanford, Calif. :
Stanford University Press,
©2011.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Paris : praised, modernized, remembered, staged, and loved : nineteenth-century foundations
- The memory of a certain "belle-epoque" (1914-c.1960) : or how the turn-of-the-century lived on beyond its time
- Postwar modernizing and the resistance of memory (1945-c.1980)
- New varieties of a "nouveau Paris" (1974-2008)
- Paris in comparison
- Contemporary Paris : images, spirit, soul, and sites
- Conclusion : to know Paris.