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The Heroic City : Paris, 1945-1958 by Rosemary Wakeman is a history book available to read on EtoBox.
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<p><i>The Heroic City</i> is a sparkling account of the fate of Paris’s public spaces in the years following Nazi occupation and joyful liberation. Countering the traditional narrative that Paris’s public landscape became sterile and dehumanized in the 1940s and ’50s, Rosemary Wakeman instead finds that the city’s streets overflowed with ritual, drama, and spectacle. With frequent strikes and protests, young people and students on parade, North Africans arriving in the capital of the French empi
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Rosemary Wakeman
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press
- Published
- 2009
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780226870236
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- History, France, Arts
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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