Paris
Subtitle: biography of a city
By: Colin Jones.
Edition: 1st American ed.
Publisher: Viking
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 566
ISBN-13: 9780670033935
Subjects: Paris (France) -- History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [511]-524) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : An impossible history of Paris?; title: Paris-Lutetia (from earliest times to c. 1000); title: 'Queen of cities' (c. 1000-c. 1300); title: The city adrift (c. 1300-c. 1480); title: Paris reborn, Paris reformed (c. 1480-1594); title: Grand siècle, great eclipse (1594-1715); title: The kingless capital of Enlightenment (1715-89); title: Revolution and empire (1789-1815); title: Between Napoleons (1815-51); title: Haussmannism and the city of modernity (1851-89); title: The anxious spectacle (1889-1918); title: Faded dreams, lost illusions (1918-45); title: The remaking of Paris (1945-c. 1995); title: Paris at a glance; title: Conclusion : Big projects in a bigger city (Paris in the twenty-first century); title: Characteristic buildings; title: Maps; title: Glossary; title: Bibliographical guide