{"product_id":"paris-dreams-paris-memories-the-city-and-its-mystique-9780804770934","title":"Paris Dreams, Paris Memories: The City and Its Mystique","description":"\u003cp\u003eHow did Paris become the world favorite it is today? Charles Rearick argues that we can best understand Paris as several cities in one, each with its own history and its own imaginary shaped by dream and memory. Paris has long been at once a cosmopolitan City of Light and of modernity, a patchwork of time-resistant villages, a treasured heirloom, a hell for the disinherited, and a legendary pleasure dome. Each of these has played a part in making the enchanting, flawed city of our time. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFocusing on the last century and a half, \u003ci\u003e Paris Dreams, Paris Memories\u003c\/i\u003e makes contemporary Paris understandable. It tells of renewal projects radically transforming neighborhoods and of counter-measures taken to perpetuate the city's historic character and soul. It provides a historically grounded look at the troubled suburbs, barren of monuments and memories, a dumping ground for unwanted industries and people. Further, it tests long-standing characterizations of Paris's uniqueness through comparisons with such rivals as London and Berlin. \u003ci\u003eParis Dreams, Paris Memories\u003c\/i\u003e shows that in myriad forms--buildings, monuments, festivities, and artistic portrayals--contemporary Paris gives new life to visions of the city long etched in Parisian imaginations.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCharles Rearick is the author of \u003ci\u003eBeyond the Enlightenment: Historians and Folklore in Nineteenth-Century France\u003c\/i\u003e (1974), \u003ci\u003ePleasures of the Belle Epoque: Entertainment and Festivity in Turn-of-the-Century France\u003c\/i\u003e (1985), and \u003ci\u003eThe French in Love and War: Popular Culture in the Era of the World Wars\u003c\/i\u003e (1997). He is Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and a frequent visitor to Paris.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Stanford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50413100663058,"sku":"9780804770934","price":20.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_879ca296-7f9e-4b0b-a031-7f686b1c0bca.jpg?v=1729346726","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/paris-dreams-paris-memories-the-city-and-its-mystique-9780804770934","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}