by KarenNewman (Author)
Demonstrates that speculation and capital, the commodity, the crowd, traffic, and the street, often thought to be historically specific to nineteenth-century urban culture, were in fact already at work in early modern London and Paris. This title challenges the notion of a rupture between premodern and modern societies.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 216
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 06 Jul 2009
ISBN 10: 069114110X
ISBN 13: 9780691141107