Besieged during the Franco-Prussian War, its buildings damaged, its finances mired in debt, Paris was a city in crisis. Alexia Yates chronicles the private actors and networks, practices and politics, that spurred the largest building boom of the nineteenth century, turning city-making into big business in the French capital.
octobre 2015, env. 368 pages, Harvard Historical Studies, Anglais
University Presses
978-0-674-08821-4
University Presses
978-0-674-08821-4