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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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Yates, Alexia M., 1980- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2015.
Colección:Harvard historical studies ; 186.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: selling Paris
  • The business of the city
  • Seeing like a speculator
  • The problem of property
  • The unceasing marketplace
  • Marketing the metropolis
  • Districts of the future
  • Epilogue: illicit speculation and impossible markets.