Paris, Capital of ModernityCollecting 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. |
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association Balzac barricades basilica Baudelaire became Belleville Blanqui Blanquists body politic boulevards bourgeois bourgeoisie building Cabet café capital capitalist central circulation commerce Communards Commune construction Corbon coup d'état craft workers Daumier depicted economic Emperor employment FIGURE Flaubert forced Fourier France French Gaillard Haussmann housing idea immigrants imperial increasing interest July Monarchy labor market labor power labor process land Les Halles liberty living Louis Napoleon Marx modernity movement Old Goriot organization Paris Paris Commune Parisian industry percent Pereires Phalanstères population Poulot problem production prostitution Proudhon provincial quarters radical rents Republic republican revolution revolutionary Rohault de Fleury role rural Sacré-Coeur Saint-Simon Saint-Simonian Second Empire sentiment Sentimental Education social socialist society sought spatial spectacle speculation streets struggle Thiers tion trade tradition transformation urban utopian Varlin wage woman women working-class workshops Zola