Rebel Cities

Paris, London and New York in the Age of Revolution

x Mike Rapport

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English

Little Brown
16 May 2017

History; General & world history; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900; Urban communities

A brilliant historical narrative of London, Paris and New York in the Age of Revolution, just as they were transforming into the great global cities we know them to be today.

London, Paris and New York in the eighteenth century, as today, were places where political authority, commerce and money, art and intellectual life intersected. They straddled an Atlantic world where ships powered by nothing more than wind, currents and human muscle criss-crossed the sea, carrying with them goods, ideas and above all people: men and women, bewigged aristocrats and lawyers, rough-handed craftworkers, quill-wielding bluestockings and doughty fishwives. But the cities were also home to dangerous criminals, corrupt politicians - and slaves.

Rebel Cities explores the stormy debate about the nature of cities in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries: were they places of enlightenment, sparkling wells of progress and civilisation, or were they dens of vice, degeneracy and disorder? Against a backdrop of accelerating urban expansion and revolution in both Europe and North America, revolutionary burghers of these extraordinary cities expended ink, paint, breath and, sometimes, blood in their struggle to understand, control and master the urban world.

Drawing on hundreds of letters, travelogues and eye-witness accounts, Mike Rapport vividly evokes the sights, sounds and smells of these cities, masterfully weaving their history with the politics of revolution.

When New Yorkers and Parisians experienced their revolution, when their cities went to war, and when Londoners engaged in political protest, they underwent the whole torrent and exhilaration of human emotions. Determining the character of the cities through their inhabitants, as well as their architecture, topography and the events that shaped them, this magnificent book evokes what it was like for all parts of society to live in London, Paris and New York in one of the most transformative periods in the history of civilisation.

By: x Mike Rapport
Imprint: Little Brown
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 233mm, Width: 154mm, Spine: 36mm
Weight: 635g
ISBN: 9781408705230
ISBN 10: 1408705230
Pages: 480
Publication Date: 16 May 2017
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Mike Rapport was born in New York, educated in Dorset and the universities of Edinburgh and Bristol. He is currently a Reader in Modern European History at the University of Glasgow.

Reviews for Rebel Cities: Paris, London and New York in the Age of Revolution

Rapport traces revolution, and counterrevolution, throughout the cities, taking the reader from location to location, and even down individual streets, providing the reader with an on-the-ground experience * Gotham Centre for New York History * Lucid, engaging, and evocatively written * The Nation * Captivating . . . gripping . . . The book is a pleasure to read and a welcome addition to the literature on the revolutionary era across the Atlantic * American Historical Review * A refreshingly vibrant narrative. At times, [Rapport's] political study could almost double as a travelogue * New York Times *