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Selling Paris : Property and Commercial Culture in the Fin-de-siècle Capital / Alexia M. Yates.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Harvard Historical Studies ; 186Publisher: Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2015]Copyright date: ©2015Description: 1 online resource (368 p.) : 33 halftones, 2 maps, 1 graph, 4 tablesContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780674088214
  • 9780674495098
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 944.361081
LOC classification:
  • HD650.P3 .Y384 2015
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction: Selling Paris -- 1. The Business of the City -- 2. Seeing Like a Speculator -- 3. The Problem of Property -- 4. The Unceasing Marketplace -- 5. Marketing the Metropolis -- 6. Districts of the Future -- Epilogue: Illicit Speculation and Impossible Markets -- Appendix -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index
Summary: 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.
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - DeGruyter (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (dgr)9780674495098

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction: Selling Paris -- 1. The Business of the City -- 2. Seeing Like a Speculator -- 3. The Problem of Property -- 4. The Unceasing Marketplace -- 5. Marketing the Metropolis -- 6. Districts of the Future -- Epilogue: Illicit Speculation and Impossible Markets -- Appendix -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index

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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.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 30. Aug 2021)

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