Tales of Two Cities
Paris, London and the Birth of the Modern City
Paris and London have long held a mutual fascination, and never more so than in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, when they both vied to be the world's greatest city. Each city has been the focus of many books, yet here Jonathan Conlin uncovers the intriguing relationship between them for the first time. It is a history of surprises: Sherlock Holmes was actually French, the can-can was English and the first restaurant served English food in Paris.Tales of Two Cities examines and compares six urban spaces - the street, the cemetery, the apartment, the restaurant, the music hall and the nocturnal underworld. The citizens of Paris and Lon…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-78239-019-0
- EAN: 9781782390190
- Produktnummer: 14843579
- Verlag: Atlantic Books
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
- Seitenangabe: 300 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 0 KB
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Jonathan Conlin
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