Public Spaces and Private Lives in Paris: Introduction

David Harvey , Paris, Capital of Modernity (New York: Routledge, 2006); Patrice Higonnet , Paris: Capital of the World, trans. Arthur Goldhammer (Cambridge, MA: Belknap, 2002); and Colin Jones , Paris: The Biography of a City (London: Viking, 2004).

Just a few examples of the many books focusing on Paris and published in English include Lenard R. Berlanstein, The Working People of Paris, 1871-1914 (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1984); Priscilla Parkhurst Ferguson , Paris as Revolution: Writing the Nineteenth-Century City ( Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994); Rachel G. Fuchs , Poor and Pregnant in Paris: Strategies for Survival in the Nineteenth Century (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1992 ); David Garrioch, Neighbourhood and Community in Paris, 1740-1790 (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1986); Ann-Louise Shapiro , Housing the Poor of Paris, 1850-1902 (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1985); Victoria E. Thompson , The Virtuous Marketplace: Women and Men, Money and Politics in Paris, 1830-1870 (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000); Vanessa Schwartz , Spectacular Realities: Early Mass Culture in Fin-de-Siècle Paris (Berkeley : University of California Press, 1998); "New Perspectives on Modern Paris," special issue of French Historical Studies 27, no. 4 (Winter 2004). 3. "Paris, the Capital of the Nineteenth Century" is the title of two different essays, from 1935 and 1939, which are the first "exposés" in Walter Benjamin, The Arcades Project, trans. Howard Eiland and Keven McLaughlin (Cambridge, MA: Belknap, 1999), 3-26. Or see http://www.amazon.com/Reflections-Essays-Aphorisms-Autobiographical-Writings/dp/080520802X/ref=ntt_at_ep_dpi_4#reader_080520802X (accessed November 9, 2009).

Eliza E. Ferguson, Gender and Justice: Violence, Intimacy, and Community in Fin-de-Siècle Paris (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press); Richard S. Hopkins , "Engineering Nature: Public Greens-paces in Nineteenth-Century Paris" (PhD diss., Arizona State University, 2008); Victoria E. Thompson , "Paris in Ruins: Politics, Public Space, and the French Revolution" (manuscript in progress).

Jürgen Habermas , The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere: An Inquiry into a Category of Bourgeois Society, trans. Thomas Burger (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1992); Craig Calhoun , ed., Habermas and the Public Sphere (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press , 1992).