Rising to the challenge: historians and the "impossible" history of Paris.(Paris: Deux mille ans d'histoire)(Seven Ages of Paris)(Paris: Capital of Modernity)(Planning Paris Before Haussmann)(Paris: Biography of a City)(Book review)

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Paris: Deux mille ans d'histoire, by Jean Favier. Paris, Fayard, 1997. 1007 pp. 32.00 [euro] (paper).

Seven Ages of Paris, by Alistair Home. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 2002. 480 pp. $35.00 US (cloth), $16.00 US (paper).

Paris: Biography of a City, by Colin Jones. London, Allen Lane, 2004. 592 pp. $29.95 US (cloth), $18.00 US (paper).

Paris, Capital of Modernity, by David Harvey. New York, Routledge, 2003. 384 pp. $25.00 US (cloth).

Planning Paris Before Haussmann, by Nicholas Papayanis. Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004. 352 pp. $55.00 US (cloth).

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