Selling Paris : property and commercial culture in the fin-de-siècle capital / Alexia M. Yates.

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Yates, Alexia M, 1980- [author.]

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TextSeries: Harvard historical studies ; 186.Publisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2015Copyright date: ©2015Description: 1 online resource (353 pages) : illustrationsContent type:

text

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computer

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online resource

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9780674495098
0674495098

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Additional physical formats: Erscheint auch als:: Property and Commercial Culture in the Fin-de-siècle CapitalDDC classification:

333.330944/36109034 23

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HD650.P3 Y37 2015

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Contents:

Introduction: selling Paris -- The business of the city -- Seeing like a speculator -- The problem of property -- The unceasing marketplace -- Marketing the metropolis -- Districts of the future -- Epilogue: illicit speculation and impossible markets.

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.-- Provided by publisher.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.-- Provided by publisher.

In English.

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