Paris: Capital of the World.(Book Review)

From: Canadian Journal of History | Date: August 1, 2005| Author: | Copyright information

Paris: Capital of the World, by Patrice Higonnet. Translated by Arthur Goldhammer. Cambridge, Massachusetts, Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2002. 493 pp. $35.00 US (cloth), $19.95 US (paper).

This is a large book on a large topic, supremely self-confident in its judgments, and supported in them by lavish production values. There are thirty-two pages of plates, and numerous other illustrations scattered through the text, which itself is set out with extravagant disregard for economy--trimming the margins to reasonable dimensions could have saved a quarter of its ...

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