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The Making of Revolutionary Paris
"An unusually compelling work of scholarly synthesis: a history of a city of revolution in a revolutionary century. Garrioch claims that until 1750 Paris remained a city characterized by a powerful sense of hierarchy. From the mid-century on, however, and with gathering speed, economic, demographic, political, and social change swept the city. Having produced an extremely engaging account of the old corporate society, Garrioch turns to the forces that relentlessly undermined it."—John E. Talbott, author of The Pen and Ink Sailor: Charles Middleton and the King's Navy, 1778-1813 "A truly wonderful synthesis of the many historical strands that compose the history of eighteenth-century Paris. In rewriting the history of the French Revolution as a more than century-long urban metamorphosis, Garrioch makes a brilliant case for the centrality of Paris in the history of France."—Bonnie Smith, author of The Gender of History: Men, Women, and Historical Practice
Tradition and Innovation in French Garden Art
Papers from a symposium held at the University of Pennsylvania.
Building the Devil's Empire
Building the Devil’s Empire is the first comprehensive history of New Orleans’s early years, tracing the town’s development from its origins in 1718 to its revolt against Spanish rule in 1768. Shannon Lee Dawdy’s picaresque account of New Orleans’s wild youth features a cast of strong-willed captives, thin-skinned nobles, sharp-tongued women, and carousing travelers. But she also widens her lens to reveal the port city’s global significance, examining its role in the French Empire and the Caribbean, and she concludes that by exemplifying a kind of rogue colonialism—where governments, outlaws, and capitalism become entwined—New Orleans should prompt us to reconsider our notion...
Etudes offertes à Jean-Louis Harouel
En 1994, dans Culture et contre cultures, Jean-Louis Harouel déplorait que 'extrême spécialisation sévissant dans l'ensemble des sciences humaines et sociales tendît "à faire de l'universitaire un spécialiste, un expert, dans la logique d'une société technicienne et scientifique où l'homme de savoir, l'expert, est quelqu'un qui "sait toujours plus sur toujours moire" (Cornélius Castoriadis)". Force est de constater que le dédicataire de ce liber anricorum a donné à voir au monde académique - et au grand public - une tout autre image de l'universitaire. Auteur prolifique, esprit intuitif et curieux, défenseur d'une certaine idée de l'art et de la cultura animi, Jean-Louis Har...
Investing in the Early Modern Built Environment
Investing in the Early Modern Built Environment represents the first attempt to delve into the period’s enhanced architectural investment—its successes, its failures, and the conflicts it provoked globally.
Manifestoes and Transformations in the Early Modernist City
The industrialization of the nineteenth-century European city facilitated developing conceptions of the model city, and allowed for large scale urban transformations. The urban discourse in the latter half of the nineteenth century was consequently dominated by a dialectic exchange between the ideal and the practical, a debate played out in the formation of the modern metropolis. Manifestoes and Transformations is the first work to deal with urban utopias and their relationship with actual urban interventions. Bringing together a carefully chosen, wide-ranging team of experts, the book provides a broad, contextual exploration of the ideas and urban practices which are the foundations of our conception of the contemporary city. As such, it is a valuable resource for students interested in the formation of the modernist city.
Europe within Reach
In Europe within Reach Gerrit Verhoeven traces some sweeping evolutions in the early modern travel behaviour of Dutch and Flemish elites (1585-1750), as the classical Grand Tour was slowly but surely overshadowed by other types of travelling. Leisure trips to Paris, London or Berlin, a cours pittoresque along the Rhine, domestic trips in the Low Countries and a series of other destinations gained ground, while new sorts of travellers cropped up: female and middle-class travellers, domestic servants, children, youngsters and the elderly. Verhoeven does not only trace these evolutions, but also explains why Netherlandish travellers gradually turned into art connoisseurs; why they were spellbound by sites of memory and by rugged landscapes; or why all sorts of fashionable gadgets and thingies were bought on the way.
Birth of the Leviathan
Ertman presents a new theory to explain the variation in political regimes and state infrastructures in pre-French Revolution Europe.
From Artisan to Worker
Examines the debate over the potential reestablishment of guilds that occurred inside and outside the French government from 1776 to 1821.
