Constructing Paris in the Age of Revolution

Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 8
List of Figures, Maps, and Tables......Page 11
Preface......Page 14
Acknowledgments......Page 17
The Three Dreams of Commerce: Corporatism, Statism, Liberalism......Page 20
The builders\' great chain of being......Page 23
A symbiotic French capitalism? Post-1763 consumer politics......Page 27
The building trades and labor migration: Meandering masons, peripatetic plumbers, and others......Page 32
The French industrial \"exception?\"......Page 37
1 Parisian Building at the End of the Ancien Régime: The Construction Trades, the Pre-Industrial Market, and the Guild Debate, 1750–1789......Page 41
Perceptions of urban decline and ancien régime construction practices......Page 48
Architectural critics and the guild debate on the construction sites of Paris......Page 66
The birth of the strike and the reform of Paris construction......Page 75
On the capital\'s \"unbounded magnificience\"......Page 79
2 The Revolution and Construction Guilds, 1789–1793......Page 82
The construction of the Revolution\'s public sphere......Page 86
Private construction and the credit crunch of the early Revolution......Page 94
Dismantling the corporate order and demarcating the new regime of Parisian building......Page 100
Guild abolition and labor conflict in the construction trades, 1791......Page 101
Artisanal contention in the interstices of old and new regimes......Page 106
Guilds and the post-corporate economy......Page 112
Public service and construction in the Revolution......Page 115
From municipal to national public works, 1789–1793......Page 117
The nation\'s work site: The Panthéon français......Page 124
Contestation and public works......Page 131
Site-specific and neighborhood-based labor strife in the Revolution......Page 138
\"What is the citizen-builder?\"......Page 148
From genius to commerce: Construction projects in 1792......Page 150
The 1793 revival of the ancien régime police idea......Page 156
On the limits of the revolutionary state......Page 160
The making of a Jacobin labor and industrial \"policy\"?......Page 165
\"What is a sans-culotte?\"......Page 169
Work in the Year II......Page 176
Terror and reaction on the building sites of Paris: Public and private construction in the Years II and III......Page 184
On the radicalization of the Year II......Page 200
\"Republican\" commerce under the Directory, 1795–1799......Page 202
The state and the construction entrepreneur: A rapprochement?......Page 203
Toward a new \"bureaucratie\" of building......Page 207
The state, capital, and labor in the debate over wages during the Consulate, 1799–1804......Page 219
The Napoleonic state and the Revolution......Page 235
Assessing, measuring, and policing the Parisian labor force......Page 241
On the advantages and disadvantages of restoring the guilds, 1807–1810......Page 246
The corporate revival under the Empire......Page 256
\"Unfree\" yet prosperous: Labor and capital in construction, 1763–1871......Page 262
Epilogue: The nineteenth-century career of corporatism......Page 268
Appendix......Page 279
Notes......Page 283
Bibliography......Page 328
B......Page 352
C......Page 354
D......Page 355
F......Page 356
I......Page 357
L......Page 358
O......Page 359
P......Page 360
R......Page 361
T......Page 362
W......Page 363