Selling Paris

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Selling Paris is written by Alexia M. Yates and published by Harvard University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0674915984 (ISBN 10) and 9780674915985 (ISBN 13).

Besieged during the Franco-Prussian War, its buildings damaged, its finances mired in debt, Paris was a city in crisis. Alexia Yates chronicles the private actors and networks, practices and politics, that spurred the largest building boom of the nineteenth century, turning city-making into big business in the French capital.