Collecting David Harvey's finest work on Paris during the second empire, "Paris, The Capital of Modernity" offers brilliant insights ranging from the birth of consumerist spectacle on the Parisian boulevards, the creative visions of Balzac, Baudelaire and Zola, and the reactionary cultural politics of the bombastic Sacre Couer. Stunning in scope and form, this is a long-awaited essential collection of David Harvey's magnificent writing on 19th century Paris.