Paris In Modern Times From The Old Regime To The Present Day Hardcover

Casey Harison

Drawing upon a vast body of historical scholarship, Casey Harison's Paris in Modern Times provides the first detailed academic history of Paris in the modern age. Chronologically surveying Paris's history from the Old Regime of the late-18th century through to the present day, this book explores the social, economic, political and cultural developments that come together to tell the story of this iconic city. Each chapter has an introduction and illuminating 'sidebars' that touch upon the ways in which Parisian history has intersected with wider changes in France and beyond. The text, which also includes a wealth of images, maps, and a further reading section, takes the opportunity to place Paris and its history in a broader French, Atlantic and global historical context in order to cover an essential aspect of what has been such an important city the world over. Paris in Modern Times is vital reading for anyone seeking to know more about the history of Paris or the history of France since the French Revolution.

9781350005532

English

Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

17 October 2019

360

Casey Harison is Professor of History and Director of the Center for Communal Studies at the University of Southern Indiana, USA. He is the author of The Stonemasons of Creuse in Nineteenth-Century Paris (2008).

This insightful and timely book covers events that have rocked Paris, from the French Revolution to the terror attacks of 2015, and paints an absorbing picture of successive people who have contributed to the creation of the modern city. * Marisa Linton, Associate Professor of History, Kingston University, UK * This is the kind of book instructors yearn for-a highly readable and cogent historical account of modern Paris, informed by the most recent insights and long established scholarship. Harison pulls off a difficult task with gusto, making the careening succession of French regimes since the Revolution appear straightforward, while enlivening that account with intriguing and surprising stories of streets, buildings and people. The Paris that emerges here is large, colorful and diverse, with its migrants, drifters and flaneurs, its high politics and low entertainments, its working men and women, its artists, rebels, courtesans and criminals. In tracing an expanding Paris from the eighteenth to the twenty-first century, through five major revolutions, three occupations and two world wars, Harison deftly weaves together strands of social, political, economic and cultural history to give an engaging panorama of the city's past. * Ian Coller, Associate Professor of History, University of California Irvine, USA *