City of Light, City of Shadows: Paris in the Belle Époque - Hardcover

Rapport, X Mike

 
9780349128160: City of Light, City of Shadows: Paris in the Belle Époque
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0349128162 ISBN 13: 9780349128160
Verlag: The Bridge Street Press, 2024

Inhaltsangabe

For readers of Graham Robb and Simon Schama, this elegantly written, vivid chronicle of Paris during the Belle Époque brings to life some of best-known characters and buildings of the era, and shows how closely the fears and anxieties of the 19th century mirror our own today.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

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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Mike Rapport is a historian with the rare ability to engage his reader both on the level of local detail and of sweeping narrative. City of Light, City of Shadows had me spellbound - Lauren Elkin, author of Flâneuse and Art Monsters

A fascinating, multi-layered panorama of the evolution of the French capital at a key period in its history - Jonathan Fenby, author of The History of Modern France

Aus dem Klappentext

Paris in the Belle Époque is remembered as a golden age of cultural flourishing and political progress. The time between the revolutionary 1870s and the outbreak of war in 1914 saw the modern French capital take shape: by day Parisians could admire the rising Eiffel Tower and Sacré-Coeur Basilica, while at night they roamed the Bohemian world of the Moulin Rouge.

But as Mike Rapport reveals in this authoritative and beautifully written new history beneath its elegant veneer Paris was at war with itself. The Belle Époque was also an era of social and religious unrest, women's emancipation and violent clashes over what it meant to be French.

Paris pulsated with the pleasures and anxieties of modernity: blazing electric lights illuminating the night, the first cars speeding down the boulevards, as well as the first Métro trains and plane flights. At the same time reactionary forces reasserted themselves-mostly dramatically in the infamous Dreyfus affair.

Told through the eyes of the greatest personalities of the age-novelist Émile Zola, feminist activist Marguerite Durand, Vietnamese diplomat Nguy?n Tr?ng H?p and socialist politician Jean Jaurès-the book weaves together stories of splendour and suffering, delight and agony, offering a brilliant account of the shadows cast across the City of Light.

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Verlag
The Bridge Street Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2024
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0349128162
ISBN 13 
9780349128160
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
448
Kontakt zum Hersteller
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Verantwortliche Person
Hachette Ireland, Hachette UK
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