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The demographic imagination and the nineteenth-century city : Paris, London, New York /
"In this provocative book, Nicholas Daly tracks the cultural effects of the population explosion of the nineteenth century, the 'demographic transition' to the modern world. As the crowded cities of Paris, London and New York went through similar transformations, a set of shared narra...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, United Kingdom :
Cambridge University Press,
2015.
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| Colección: | Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture ;
97. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction
- 1. Under the volcano: mass destruction
- 2. The streets of wherever: French melodrama and Anglophone localization
- 3. The ghost comes to town: the haunted city
- 4. The frenzy of the legible in the age of crowds
- 5. Fur and feathers: animals and the city in an Anthropocene era
- Conclusion.