The making of modern Paris, 1760-1860
David Garrioch and Wallace Kirsop
8 points * 3 hours per week * First semester * Clayton
During the century between 1760 and 1860 Paris was transformed from a `walking city' of narrow, winding streets into an economically integrated metropolis with wide, tree-lined boulevards, advanced public health and sanitation, and the world's first public transport system. The subject studies the course and causes of this transformation: the impact of economic change and revolution, the effect of new medical theories and new ideals of beauty, and the role of the state. The subject will conclude with an evaluation of theories of urban development in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
Assessment
Written (5000 words): 80% * Examinations (1 hour): 20%
Recommended reading
Chevalier L Labouring classes and dangerous classes in Paris during the first half of the nineteenth century Fertig, 1973
Green N The spectacle of nature: Landscape and Bourgeois culture in nineteenth-century France Manchester UP, 1990
Pinkney D Napoleon III and the rebuilding of Paris Princeton UP, 1958
Roche D The people of Paris: An essay in popular culture in eighteenth century trans. M Evans Berg, 1985