Home and its Dislocations in Nineteenth-Century France Robert Arnott

Home and its Dislocations in Nineteenth-Century France Robert ArnottThe nineteenth century witnessed an unprecedented social restructuring that disrupted traditional notions of people and place, country and city, private and public spheres. The break with the old order and the entry into the industrial age was most dramatically played out in France, with the growth of a new urban middle class under the July monarchy and the rebuilding of Paris by Haussmann under the Second Empire. The personal, immediate, and radical

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