Paris in Modern Times: From the Old Regime to the Present Day

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Drawing upon a vast body of historical scholarship, Casey Harisons Paris in Modern Times provides the first detailed academic history of Paris in the modern age. Chronologically surveying Pariss history from the Old Regime of the late-18th century through to the present day, this book explores the social, economic, political and cultural developments that come together to tell the story of this iconic city. Each chapter has an introduction and illuminating sidebars that touch upon the ways in which Parisian history has intersected with wider changes in France and beyond. The text, which also includes a wealth of images, maps, and a further reading section, takes the opportunity to place Paris and its history in a broader French, Atlantic and global historical context in order to cover an essential aspect of what has been such an important city the world over. Paris in Modern Times is vital reading for anyone seeking to know more about the history of Paris or the history of France since the French Revolution.

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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 todays 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 rgime 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 fora 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 flneurs, 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 citys past. * Ian Coller, Associate Professor of History, University of California Irvine, USA *

Author Bio

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).