Casey Harison is Professor of History and Director of the Center for Communal Studies at the University of Southern Indiana, USA. He is the author of The Stonemasons of Creuse in Nineteenth-Century Paris (2008).

• List of ImagesList of MapsList of TablesIntroduction - Paris, France and the World1. Old Regime Paris: The City before 17892. Paris, during the French Revolution and Napoleon, 1789-18153. Paris during the Restoration, 1815-18304. Paris during the July Monarchy and the Revolution of 18485. Paris during the Second Empire, 1852-18706. The Paris Commune of 18717. Paris from the Third Republic to the Turn-of-the-Century8. Paris from the Belle Époque to the Great War9. Paris from the Great War through Vichy10. Paris: Post-war through De Gaulle11. Paris from De Gaulle to Mitterrand12. Paris from Mitterrand to the PresentChronologySuggested ReadingsIndex

Casey Harison has delivered a gift to colleagues, students, and anyone with an interest in the European city. Wielding communicative skills and perspective born of years in the classroom, Harison has written a capacious and entertaining history of Paris contextualizing the French capital in the global trends of the last three centuries ... This is emphatically a book for today’s classroom.