Constructing Paris in the Age of Revolution

by Allan Potofsky (Author)

• New

  Hardcover
  2009

  $156.59

  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.