Charlotte Chastel-Rousseau
Lund Humphries
Hardback
288
Royal Monuments and Urban Public Space in Eighteenth-Century Europe is the first in-depth study of the major role played by royal monuments in the public space of expanding cities across eighteenth-century Europe. Using the royal monuments as the basis for its examination of modern European cities the book looks from the development of urban landscapes and the creation of capital cities to the last embers of the ancien regimes and how absolute monarchy affected the cityscapes of the time - and of now. The focus of the book thereby intersects across a spectrum of disciplines including the social history of cities the politics of city-planning the architectural history of cities and monuments and the culture of the eighteenth century as a whole.
Lund Humphries
Hardback
288
Royal Monuments and Urban Public Space in Eighteenth-Century Europe is the first in-depth study of the major role played by royal monuments in the public space of expanding cities across eighteenth-century Europe. Using the royal monuments as the basis for its examination of modern European cities the book looks from the development of urban landscapes and the creation of capital cities to the last embers of the ancien regimes and how absolute monarchy affected the cityscapes of the time - and of now. The focus of the book thereby intersects across a spectrum of disciplines including the social history of cities the politics of city-planning the architectural history of cities and monuments and the culture of the eighteenth century as a whole.