Paris, capital of modernity
Publication details: New York Routledge 2006Description: xi,372pISBN:- 9780415952200
- 711.40944 HAR
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Contents
Illustrations vii
Tables xi
Introduction: modernity as break 1
Part One Representations: Paris 1830-1848
1. The myths of modernity: Balzac's Paris 23
2. Dreaming the body politic: revolutionary politics and utopian schemes, 1830-1848 59
Part Two Materializations: Paris 1848-1870
3. Prologue 93
4. The organization of space relations 107
5. Money, credit and finance 117
6. Rent and the propertied interest 125
7. The state 141
8. Astract and concrete labor 153
9. The buying and selling of labor power 173
10. The condition of women 183
11. The reproduction of labor power 195
12. Consumerism, spectacle, and leisure 209
13. Community and glass 225
14. Natural relations 245
15. Science and sentiment, modernity and tradition 253
16. Rhetoric and representation 267
17. The geopolitics of urban transformation 293
Part Three Coda
18. The building of the basilica of Sacre-Goeur 311
Notes 341
Bibliography 355
Acknowledgments and credits for illustrations 363
Index 365
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