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Rebel Cities: Paris, London and New York in the Age of Revolution
Mike Rapport
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Description for Rebel Cities: Paris, London and New York in the Age of Revolution
Hardback. A brilliant historical narrative of London, Paris and New York in the Age of Revolution, just as they were transforming into the great global cities we know them to be today. Num Pages: 464 pages, Section: 16, b/w photos. BIC Classification: HB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 240 x 156. .
London, Paris and New York in the eighteenth century, as today, were places where political authority, commerce and money, art and intellectual life intersected. They straddled an Atlantic world where ships powered by nothing more than wind, currents and human muscle criss-crossed the sea, carrying with them goods, ideas and above all people: men and women, bewigged aristocrats and lawyers, rough-handed craftworkers, quill-wielding bluestockings and doughty fishwives. But the cities were also home to dangerous criminals, corrupt politicians- - and slaves. Rebel Cities explores the stormy debate about the nature of cities in the eighteenth and ... Read more
London, Paris and New York in the eighteenth century, as today, were places where political authority, commerce and money, art and intellectual life intersected. They straddled an Atlantic world where ships powered by nothing more than wind, currents and human muscle criss-crossed the sea, carrying with them goods, ideas and above all people: men and women, bewigged aristocrats and lawyers, rough-handed craftworkers, quill-wielding bluestockings and doughty fishwives. But the cities were also home to dangerous criminals, corrupt politicians- - and slaves. Rebel Cities explores the stormy debate about the nature of cities in the eighteenth and ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Little, Brown Book Group
Condition
New
Number of Pages
464
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781408702918
SKU
9781408702918
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Ref
99-1
About Mike Rapport
Mike Rapport is a Reader in modern European history at the University of Glasgow and a fellow of the Royal Historical Society. He is the author of several books, including 1848: Year of Revolution. He lives in Stirling, Scotland.
Reviews for Rebel Cities: Paris, London and New York in the Age of Revolution
'Mike Rapport describes how urbans geography shaped mass politics and how cities again became the great stages of politics...a skilful addition to 'Atlantic history'
Dominic Green
Literary Review
Rapport traces revolution, and counterrevolution, throughout the cities, taking the reader from location to location, and even down individual streets, providing the reader with an on-the-ground experience
Gotham ... Read more
Dominic Green
Literary Review
Rapport traces revolution, and counterrevolution, throughout the cities, taking the reader from location to location, and even down individual streets, providing the reader with an on-the-ground experience
Gotham ... Read more