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Paris in the Belle Époque is remembered as a golden age of cultural flourishing and political progress. The time between the revolutionary 1870s and the outbreak of war in 1914 saw the modern French capital take shape: by day Parisians could admire the rising Eiffel Tower and Sacré-Coeur Basilica, while at night they roamed the Bohemian world of the Moulin Rouge.But as Mike Rapport reveals in this authoritative and beautifully written new hist...

Mike Rapport is a historian with the rare ability to engage his reader both on the level of local detail and of sweeping narrative. City of Light, City of Shadows had me spellbound - Lauren Elkin, author of Flâneuse and Art MonstersA fascinating, multi-layered panorama of the evolution of the French capital at a key period in its history - Jonathan Fenby, author of The History of Modern France

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Il 22 febbraio 1848 Parigi si sveglia sotto un cielo grigio e carico di pioggia. Le raffiche di vento portano per le strade una triste acquerugiola. Alle nove una folla di manifestanti - operai disoccupati, donne e bambini - si riunisce in place de la Madeleine, dalla quale deve prendere avvio la marcia di protesta. Tre giorni dopo, alle prime ore del mattino, la piazza esplode in un boato di giubilo: è stata proclamata la Repubblica! Parigi è...

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Mike Rapport is a Reader in modern European history at the University of Glasgow and a fellow of the Royal Historical Society. He is the author of several books, including 1848: Year of Revolution. He lives in Stirling, Scotland.

Covers the social, political and institutional aspects of warfare in this period.

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 later eighteenth century, as today, were places where political authority, commerce and money, art and intellectual life intersected. They straddled an Atlantic world pulsating with new ideas - and with revolution. Whole communities, men and women, bewigged aristocrats and lawyers, rough-handed craftworkers, quill-wielding bluestockings, doughty fishwives, and the enslaved, debated the meaning of freedom and m...

Tweehonderd jaar geleden, in 1815, werd keizer Napoleon Bonaparte in de Slag bij Waterloo definitief verslagen. De oorlogen die Napoleon voerde tussen 1792 en 1815 zijn van grote betekenis geweest voor de geschiedenis van Europa. Veel landen waaronder Nederland zien Napoleons bewind zelfs als het startpunt van hun moderne geschiedenis. In De oorlogen van Napoleon beschrijft Mike Rapport het ontstaan en verloop van Napoleons oorlogen, de mani...

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A snapshot of the world 200 years ago, from the White Lotus rebellion in China to the struggle for global power between England and France of the newly-crowned Emperor Napoleon. Published to coincide with the 200th anniversary of the Battle of Trafalgar.

In 1848, a violent storm of revolutions ripped through Europe. This vivid and enlightening book traces the roots of the revolutions and then, with breathtaking pace, describes how these explosions of violence spread across Europe, and explains how their effects are still present today.