Selling Paris
Business & Finance, Finance & Investing, Real Estate, Nonfiction, History, France, Economics, Economic History
| Author: | Alexia M. Yates | ISBN: | 9780674915985 |
| Publisher: | Harvard University Press | Publication: | October 6, 2015 |
| Imprint: | Harvard University Press | Language: | English |
| Author: | Alexia M. Yates |
| ISBN: | 9780674915985 |
| Publisher: | Harvard University Press |
| Publication: | October 6, 2015 |
| Imprint: | Harvard University Press |
| Language: | English |
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.
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.
