List of Images List of Maps List of Tables Introduction - Paris, France and the World 1. Old Regime Paris: The City before 1789 2. Paris, during the French Revolution and Napoleon, 1789-1815 3. Paris during the Restoration, 1815-1830 4. Paris during the July Monarchy and the Revolution of 1848 5. Paris during the Second Empire, 1852-1870 6. The Paris Commune of 1871 7. Paris from the Third Republic to the Turn-of-the-Century 8. Paris from the Belle Époque to the Great War 9. Paris from the Great War through Vichy 10. Paris: Post-war through De Gaulle 11. Paris from De Gaulle to Mitterrand 12. Paris from Mitterrand to the Present Chronology Suggested Readings Index
A comprehensive modern history of Paris which sheds light on its place as the capital of France and a cultural capital of Europe and the world.
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).
Casey Harison has delivered a gift to colleagues, students, and
anyone with an interest in the European city. Wielding
communicative skills and perspective born of years in the
classroom, Harison has written a capacious and entertaining history
of Paris contextualizing the French capital in the global trends of
the last three centuries ... This is emphatically a book for
today’s classroom.
*Journal of Modern History*
[An] excellent survey of the history of Paris. It is at once
erudite, lively, and accessible and covers ground from the ancien
régime of the 1760s through revolutions and world wars to the
devastating fire that burned Notre-Dame Cathedral in April 2019 …
Each chapter addresses the political, administrative, economic, and
cultural developments of a specific era with cogent explanations
that will be valuable for students, general readers, or anyone who
just loves Paris. Summing Up: Recommended. All levels.
*CHOICE*
The research that has gone into its making is admirable, and ...
['Suggestions for Further Reading'] are both impressively
up-to-date and a reminder of the dauntingly fertile field into
which reflections on Paris and its histories have to be
inserted.
*Journal of European Studies*
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
flâneurs, 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*
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