Paris And London In The 18th Century

Paris and London in the 18th Century (1970) by George Rudé – Sold by Crappy Old Books

Step into the smoky alleyways, raucous taverns, and teeming marketplaces of two of Europe’s greatest cities during a century of revolution, reform, and rumour. In Paris and London in the 18th Century, acclaimed historian George Rudé swaps royal courts for crowded slums, giving voice to the butchers, bakers, street-sellers, and servants who powered the engines of change from below.

Originally published in 1970 as part of the Fontana History series, this is social history at its most vivid and urgent—charting the daily lives, struggles, and simmering discontent of the urban poor in the decades before the French and Industrial Revolutions. Rudé blends sharp scholarship with a storyteller’s flair, painting a double portrait of two cities at once worlds apart and eerily alike.

Condition: Lightly foxed, faint aroma of intellectual rebellion. Ideal for readers who like their history scruffy, radical, and suspicious of powdered wigs.

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Near new condition.

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