Paris: Capital of Modernity  

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Paris: Capital of Modernity (2003) is a book by David Harvey. It is a historical-geographical study of Second Empire Paris and the events surrounding the Paris Commune.

It offers 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 Coeur. 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.



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