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Record Nr.

UNINA9910451229803321

Autore

Harvey David <1935->

Titolo

Paris, capital of modernity [[electronic resource] /] / David Harvey

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Routledge, 2003

ISBN

1-135-94585-3

0-203-60355-9

1-280-09506-7

0-203-50861-0

Edizione

[1st edition]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (385 p.)

Disciplina

944/.36107

Soggetti

Electronic books.

Paris (France) Civilization 19th century

France History Second Empire, 1852-1870

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 355-362) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Paris, Capital of Modernity; Copyright; Contents; Illustrations; Tables; Introduction: Modernity as break; Part One Representations: Paris 1830-1848; 1.The myths of modernity: balzac's paris; 2.Dreaming the body politic: Revolutionary politics And utoplan schemes, 1830-1848; Part Two Materializations: Paris 1848-1870; 3.Prologue; 4.The organization of space relations; 5.Money, credit, and finance; 6.Rent and the propertied interest; 7.The state; 8.Abstract and concrete labor; 9.The buying and selling of labor power; 10.The condition of women; 11.The reproduction of labor power

12.Consumerism, spectacle, and leisure13.Community and class; 14.Natural relations; 15.Science and sentiment, modernity and tradition; 16.Rhetoric and representation; 17.The geopolitics of urban transformation; Part Three Coda; 18.The building of the basilica of sacré-coeur; Notes; Bibliography; Acknowledgments and credits for illustrations; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Collecting David Harvey's finest work on Paris during the second empire, Paris, Capital of Modernity offers brilliant 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.