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...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
Publicado: |
Cambridge, Massachusetts :
Harvard University Press,
2015.
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Colección: | Harvard historical studies ;
186. |
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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.-- |
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Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (353 pages) : illustrations |
Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
ISBN: | 9780674495098 0674495098 |