The unruly city : Paris, London and New York in the age of revolution

Author

Michael Rapport

Call Number

• 944.04 R2216 (CEN)

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Publication Information

New York : Basic Books, [2017]

Physical Description

xxxiv, 364 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm

Contents

• Introduction: Three cities in an age of revolution
• The Revolution comes to New York, 1765-1775
• London defiant: Wilkes and liberty, 1763-1776
• The King against Paris, 1763-1776
• New York City in revolution and war, 1775-1783
• London burns: reformers and rioters, 1776-1780
• Paris rises: the coming of revolution, 1776-1789
• New York: capital city, 1783-1789
• Paris in revolution, 1789-1793
• London debates the French Revolution, 1789-1792
• Paris in the Terror, 1793-1794
• Radical London: Democrats, loyalists and the reaction, 1792-1794
• New York confronts the French Revolution, 1789-1795
• Conclusion: The revolutionary city and historical memory.