Napoleon III and the rebuilding of Paris / David H Pinkney.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pinkney, David H., author.

Series:

Princeton legacy library.

Princeton legacy library

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Public works--France.

Public works.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 245 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations, map.

Place of Publication:

Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [1958]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In the two decades between 1850 and 1870 Napoleon III and his Prefect of the Seine, Baron Haussmann, created the modern city of Paris out of the congested and ill-equipped capital of the 18th century. They gave Paris many of its present major streets, its great municipal parks, the Central Markets, the Opera House and other well-known buildings, as well as a water supply system and a network of sewers that still serve the city. The various factors of the venture: the city's rapidly increasing population, the challenging engineering problems, the political complications, and the clash of personalities involved are here considered. The author presents the whole undertaking in the perspective of French political and economic history, shows its relation to the public health movement of the mid-nineteenth century, and explains its significance in the history of city planning. Originally published in 1958.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Contents:

Front matter

PREFACE

CONTENTS

ILLUSTRATIONS

I. PARIS IN 1850

II. THE PLAN AND THE MEN

III. FROM PLANS TO PAVEMENTS

IV. BUILDINGS AND PARKS

V. A BATTLE FOR WATER

VI. PARIS UNDERGROUND

VII. THE CITY GROWS

VIII. MONEY AND POLITICS

IX. PARIS IN 1870 AND AFTER

BIBLIOGRAPHY

INDEX

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Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Mai 2019)

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780691273471

0691273472

9780691655406

0691655405

9780691656823

0691656827

9780691196732

0691196737

OCLC:

1083224751