num_pages: 384
description: Collecting David Harvey's work on Paris during the second empire, this title offers insights ranging from the birth of consumerist spectacle on the Parisian boulevards, the creative visions of Balzac, Baudelaire and Zola, and the reactionary cultural politics of the bombastic Sacre Couer. The book is heavily illustrated and includes a number drawings, portraits and cartoons by Daumier, one of the greatest political caricaturists of the nineteenth century.
language: English
title: Paris, Capital of Modernity
titlecomplete: Paris, Capital of Modernity
genres: France, History, Philosophy, Geography, Sociology, Cities, European History, Urbanism, Nonfiction, Theory
ratings_count: 263
places: France, Paris
publisher: Routledge