Rebel cities : Paris, London and New York in the Age of Revolution

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Label

Rebel cities : Paris, London and New York in the Age of Revolution

Title remainder

Paris, London and New York in the Age of Revolution

Statement of responsibility

Michael Rapport

Creator

• Rapport, Michael

Subject

• History
• London (England) -- History -- 18th century
• New York (N.Y.) -- History -- 18th century
• Paris (France) -- History -- 18th century

Language

eng

Summary

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, articulate, rough-handed craftworkers, quill-wielding bluestockings and doughty fishwives. But the cities were also home to dangerous criminals, corrupt politicians and slaves. This work explores the stormy debate about the nature of cities in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries: were they places of enlightenment, sparkling wells of progress and civilisation, or were they dens of vice, degeneracy and disorder?

Cataloging source

StDuBDS

Dewey number

• 942.1'07
• 942.1'07
• 942.107

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

no index present

Literary form

non fiction