ABSTRACT
Collecting David Harvey's finest work on Paris during the second empire, Paris, Capital of Modernity offers brilliant insights ranging from the birth of consumerist spectacle on the Parisian boulevards, the creative visions of Balzac, Baudelaire and Zola, and the reactionary cultural politics of the bombastic Sacre Couer. The book is heavily illustrated and includes a number drawings, portraits and cartoons by Daumier, one of the greatest political caricaturists of the nineteenth century.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |69 pages
Representations
part |218 pages
Materializations
chapter |13 pages
Prologue
chapter |10 pages
The Organization of Space Relations
chapter |8 pages
Money, C redit, and Finance
chapter |16 pages
Rent and the Propertied Interest
chapter |12 pages
The State
chapter |19 pages
Abstract and Concrete Labor
chapter |10 pages
The Buying and Selling of Labor Power
chapter |12 pages
The Condition of Women
chapter |13 pages
The Reproduction of Labor Power
chapter |16 pages
Consumerism, Spectacle, and Leisure
chapter |20 pages
Community and Class
chapter |8 pages
Natural Relations
chapter |14 pages
Science and Sentiment, Modernity and Tradition
chapter |25 pages
Rhetoric and Representation
chapter |16 pages
The Geopolitics of Urban Transformation
part |32 pages
Coda