The Routledge Handbook of the History of Paris since 1789
1st Edition
Published on 29. May 2025
354 pages
978-1-040-34732-4 (ISBN)
Description
This handbook assembles a vibrant collection of original scholarship highlighting new and exciting research themes on Paris in the Modern Era. It provides an innovative selection and use of primary sources, broadens the notion of "archive," and includes diverse voices and multiple perspectives.
The contributors, representing a range of academic disciplines in the humanities and social sciences, connect specific topics to larger historical questions and extend consideration of Paris beyond the city's historical limit to the outskirts of the metropolis in the Ile-de-France region. The first section includes overview chapters tracing structural evolutions and broad movements as understood through recent historiography. The second section presents essays that take a narrower focus on case studies and key moments of reflection and debate, change and commemoration through specific sites, social phenomena, cultural objects, movements, and representations of Paris in the arts. The authors explore how Paris has been imagined, constructed, and mythologized from the outside - by tourists, immigrants, and those separate from the circles of power, as well as from within - by political, administrative, and cultural institutions.
Geared towards advanced undergraduates, graduate students, and postgraduate researchers, this handbook contributes to readers' understanding of France's place in the world and French society, culture, and policy by telling the story of modern Paris in all its complexity.
The contributors, representing a range of academic disciplines in the humanities and social sciences, connect specific topics to larger historical questions and extend consideration of Paris beyond the city's historical limit to the outskirts of the metropolis in the Ile-de-France region. The first section includes overview chapters tracing structural evolutions and broad movements as understood through recent historiography. The second section presents essays that take a narrower focus on case studies and key moments of reflection and debate, change and commemoration through specific sites, social phenomena, cultural objects, movements, and representations of Paris in the arts. The authors explore how Paris has been imagined, constructed, and mythologized from the outside - by tourists, immigrants, and those separate from the circles of power, as well as from within - by political, administrative, and cultural institutions.
Geared towards advanced undergraduates, graduate students, and postgraduate researchers, this handbook contributes to readers' understanding of France's place in the world and French society, culture, and policy by telling the story of modern Paris in all its complexity.
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Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Illustrations
46 Halftones, black and white; 46 Illustrations, black and white
File size
9,08 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-040-34732-4 (9781040347324)
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Persons
Kory Olson is Professor of French at Stockton University. He is author of The Cartographic Capital: Mapping Third Republic Paris (2018). His work on the history of cartography, Paris urbanism, and colonial mapping has appeared in French Colonial History, Contemporary French Civilization, and Imago Mundi: The Journal for the History of Cartography.
Amanda Shoaf Vincent is Associate Professor of French Studies at Wake Forest University. She is the author of Constructing Gardens, Cultivating the City: Paris's New Parks, 1977-1995 (2023). Her research on landscape, garden design, and architecture has been published in journals including French Cultural Studies, Contemporary French Civilization, and Landscape Journal.
Erin-Marie Legacey is Associate Professor of History at Texas Tech University. Her first book was a lively look at Parisian burial places: Making Space for the Dead: Cemeteries, Catacombs, and the Reimagining of Paris, 1780-1830 (2019).
Amanda Shoaf Vincent is Associate Professor of French Studies at Wake Forest University. She is the author of Constructing Gardens, Cultivating the City: Paris's New Parks, 1977-1995 (2023). Her research on landscape, garden design, and architecture has been published in journals including French Cultural Studies, Contemporary French Civilization, and Landscape Journal.
Erin-Marie Legacey is Associate Professor of History at Texas Tech University. Her first book was a lively look at Parisian burial places: Making Space for the Dead: Cemeteries, Catacombs, and the Reimagining of Paris, 1780-1830 (2019).
Content
Introduction Section 1 1. Sound Monuments: Paris Street Cries in the City's Modern and Contemporary History 2. Photography in Paris: A Topographical History 3. The Gastronomic Capital of the World 4. Literary Social Capital in Post-Revolutionary Literary Paris: 1802-1848 5. Paris as a Literary Capital 6. Protecting Parisian Children and Youth 7. The Changing Face of Nocturnal Paris: From the Advent of the Modern Night to the Present Day 8. Tolerating Commercial Sex: The Brothels of Paris 9. Queer Itineraries: Exploring the Geography of Gay Paris 10. The Paris Police and Migrants since 1789 11. Paris's Convents 12. The Paris Catacombs: Two Centuries of Pursuing the Past 13. Housing Paris, Parisian Housing 14. The "Grand Paris" of the Nineteenth Century, the Urbanisation of the "petite banlieue" 15. Paris in Ruins Section 2 16. Parisian Types Revisited: le gamin, la grisette, and le rat 17. Vietnamese Migrants in the City of Lights: 1914-1939 18. Global Anti-Imperialism and the 1931 Paris International Colonial Exposition 19. Paris Chinois: Recreating the City from Outside and Inside 20. Revolutionary Memories at the Place de la Concorde 21. The Heart of Paris?: Power, Representation, and Restoration in the Nineteenth-Century Cathedral of Notre-Dame 22. Education in Public Squares: A Chronotopic Analysis of Commemorative Monuments During France's Third Republic 23. Witnessing the September Massacres: Popular Violence in Paris During the Terror 24. Paris under Allied Occupation, 1814 and 1815-1818 25. "The Fragile and Luminous Beauty of Paris:" The French under Nazi Occupation 26. Bridging the Past and Present: Meryon's Etchings of the Pont-au-Change 27. Van Gogh and the Fortifications of Paris 28. A City of Light and Shadow: State Control and Informal Urbanism in the Advent of Parisian Suburbs (1850s-1970s) 29. Paris Urbanism: A Tale of Two Maps 30. La Goutte d'Or and Chateau Rouge 31. The Bois de Boulogne and Bois de Vincennes from the French Revolution to Today 32. Paris's Green Space: Contributing to a Cultural Metropolis 33. The Myth of the Moulin Rouge 34. Le Jardin d'Agronomie tropicale de Nogent-sur-Marne as a lieu de memoire 35. The Gare du Nord: Making an Immigrant Hub 36. The Villes Nouvelles and the Question of Autonomy from Paris: The Case of Cergy-Pontoise
