1st Edition
The Routledge Handbook of the History of Paris since 1789
Introduction
Kory Olson, Amanda Shoaf Vincent, and Erin-Marie Legacey
Section 1
1. Sound Monuments: Paris Street Cries in the City’s Modern and Contemporary History
Aimée Boutin
2. Photography in Paris: A Topographical History
Kathrin Yacavone
3. The Gastronomic Capital of the World
Benjamin Poole
4. Literary Social Capital in Post-Revolutionary Literary Paris: 1802–1848
Melanie Conroy
5. Paris as a Literary Capital
Audra L. Merfeld
6. Protecting Parisian Children and Youth
Miranda Sachs
7. The Changing Face of Nocturnal Paris: From the Advent of the Modern Night to the Present Day
Charlotte Berkery
8. Tolerating Commercial Sex: The Brothels of Paris
Andrew Israel Ross
9. Queer Itineraries: Exploring the Geography of Gay Paris
Daniel Nabil Maroun
10. The Paris Police and Migrants since 1789
Amit Prakash
11. Paris’s Convents
Gemma Betros
12. The Paris Catacombs: Two Centuries of Pursuing the Past
Erin-Marie Legacey
13. Housing Paris, Parisian Housing
Nicole Rudolph
14. The "Grand Paris" of the Nineteenth Century, the Urbanisation of the "petite banlieue"
Paul Lecat
15. Paris in Ruins
Daryl Lee
Section 2
16. Parisian Types Revisited: le gamin, la grisette, and le rat
Anne O’Neil-Henry and Masha Belenky
17. Vietnamese Migrants in the City of Lights: 1914–1939
Elizabeth Tuttle
18. Global Anti-Imperialism and the 1931 Paris International Colonial Exposition
Johann Le Guelte
19. Paris Chinois: Recreating the City from Outside and Inside
Gary W. McDonogh and Cindy Hing-Yuk Wong
20. Revolutionary Memories at the Place de la Concorde
Victoria E. Thompson
21. The Heart of Paris?: Power, Representation, and Restoration in the Nineteenth-Century Cathedral of Notre-Dame
Laura O’Brien
22. Education in Public Squares: A Chronotopic Analysis of Commemorative Monuments During France’s Third Republic
Janice Best
23. Witnessing the September Massacres: Popular Violence in Paris During the Terror
Jeff Horn
24. Paris under Allied Occupation, 1814 and 1815–1818
Christine Haynes
25. “The Fragile and Luminous Beauty of Paris:” The French under Nazi Occupation
Shannon L. Fogg
26. Bridging the Past and Present: Meryon’s Etchings of the Pont-au-Change
Ashley Dunn
27. Van Gogh and the Fortifications of Paris
Christa R. DiMarco
28. A City of Light and Shadow: State Control and Informal Urbanism in the Advent of Parisian Suburbs (1850s–1970s)
Noel Manzano
29. Paris Urbanism: A Tale of Two Maps
Kory Olson
30. La Goutte d’Or and Château Rouge
Gareth Millington, Aurélien Mokoko Gampiot, and Ayshka Sené
31. The Bois de Boulogne and Bois de Vincennes from the French Revolution to Today
Haejeong Hazel Hahn
32. Paris’s Green Space: Contributing to a Cultural Metropolis
Amanda Shoaf Vincent
33. The Myth of the Moulin Rouge
Will Visconti
34. Le Jardin d’Agronomie tropicale de Nogent-sur-Marne as a lieu de mémoire
Gemma King and Meghan Tinsley
35. The Gare du Nord: Making an Immigrant Hub
Julie Kleinman
36. The Villes Nouvelles and the Question of Autonomy from Paris: The Case of Cergy-Pontoise
Carl Cornell
Biography
Kory Olson is Professor of French at Stockton University. He is author of The Cartographic Capital: Mapping Third Republic Paris (2018). His work on the history of cartography, Paris urbanism, and colonial mapping has appeared in French Colonial History, Contemporary French Civilization, and Imago Mundi: The Journal for the History of Cartography.
Amanda Shoaf Vincent is Associate Professor of French Studies at Wake Forest University. She is the author of Constructing Gardens, Cultivating the City: Paris’s New Parks, 1977–1995 (2023). Her research on landscape, garden design, and architecture has been published in journals including French Cultural Studies, Contemporary French Civilization, and Landscape Journal.
Erin-Marie Legacey is Associate Professor of History at Texas Tech University. Her first book was a lively look at Parisian burial places: Making Space for the Dead: Cemeteries, Catacombs, and the Reimagining of Paris, 1780–1830 (2019).
