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A richly illustrated historical and cultural analysis of how 19th‑century Paris — especially during the Second Empire — became a model of urban modernity. The book traces transformations in space, social relations, capitalism, consumer culture, labor, gender, and class, arguing that Paris’s physical and social re‑engineering underlies the emergence of modern urban experience

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250: $b: Routledge (Taylor & Francis Group)
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