Constructing Paris in the Age of Revolution

Examining the social and political history of workers and entrepreneurs engaged in constructing the French capital from 1763-1815, this book argues that Paris construction was a core sector in which 'archaic' and 'innovative' practices were symbiotically used by guilds, the state, and enterprises to launch the commercial revolution in France.

Author: A. Potofsky
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: 10/29/2009
Pages: 345
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 9.40h x 6.20w x 0.80d
ISBN: 9781137264343

About the Author
ALLAN POTOFSKY is Professor at the Université Paris Diderot-Paris 7. He was awarded a PhD in History from Columbia University, New York, and previously was Associate Professor at the Université Paris-8 (Saint-Denis). His research interests include the history of Paris, the French Revolution, eighteenth-century Atlantic history, France in America, and comparative urban history, 1750-1850. He lives in the northeast Parisian quarter of Belleville.