Collecting David Harvey's finest work on Paris during the second empire, Paris, Capital of Modernity offers brilliant insights ranging from the birth of consume

"Is Paris Still the Capital of the Nineteenth Century?" The question that guides this volume stems from Walter Benjamin's studies of nineteenth-century Parisian

Paris and the Nineteenth Century moves between social and cultural history, literature, painting and photography. At its heart lies a series of readings of majo

Documents the century-long transformation of Paris from a medieval center to the modern city that is recognized today, revealing how the Parisian urban model wa

In nineteenth-century Paris, passionate involvement with revolution turned the city into an engrossing object of cultural speculation. For writers caught betwee