Rebel Cities: Paris, London and New York in the Age of Revolution - Hardcover

Rapport, X Mike

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1408702916 ISBN 13: 9781408702918

Verlag: Little, Brown, 2017

Inhaltsangabe

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.

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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.

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Praise for 1848: Year of Revolution

'Impeccable . . . punctuated by vivid set pieces' Literary Review

'A lively, panoramic new history' New York Times

'An ambitious and wide-ranging book . . . Those who want a readable, informed and vibrant account of a crucial time in European history should look no further' Independent Weekly

'This lively history gives an impressive overview and examines how these insurrections shaped modern Europe' Scotland on Sunday

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London, Paris and New York in the later eighteenth century, as today, were places where political authority, commerce and money, art and intellectual life intersected. They straddled an Atlantic world pulsating with new ideas - and with revolution. Whole communities, men and women, bewigged aristocrats and lawyers, rough-handed craftworkers, quill-wielding bluestockings, doughty fishwives, and the enslaved, debated the meaning of freedom and made bids for emancipation and equality.

Rebel Cities explores the ways in which these upheavals unfolded in three great urban centres, considering the relationship between city and revolution, and explaining why New York and Paris experienced revolution, while London - although it came close - ultimately did not. From the coming of the American War of Independence in New York, to agitation for democracy in London, to insurrection, revolution and regicide in Paris, Mike Rapport takes readers through the streets and neighbourhoods of these cities, describing how the political conflicts were shaped by, and in turn marked, their buildings, their public spaces and their cityscapes. Drawing on archives, letters, travelogues and eye-witness accounts, Mike Rapport vividly evokes the sights, sounds and smells of the urban world, masterfully weaving their history with the politics of revolution.

Determining the character of the cities through their inhabitants, as well as their buildings, topography and the events that shaped them, this book evokes what it was like for all parts of society to live in London, Paris and New York in one of the most transformative periods in western history.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Little, Brown
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2017
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1408702916
• ISBN 13: 9781408702918
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 464
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