Cultural Capitals - Early Modern London and Paris - Paperback - 2009

Demonstrates that speculation and capital, the commodity, the crowd, traffic, and the street, often thought to be historically specific to nineteenthcentury 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.
Year of publication: 2009
Pagination: 224 pages, 30 halftones.
Format: Paperback