Rebel Cities Paris, London and New York in the Age of Revolution

"London, Paris and New York in the latter eighteenth century were places where political authority, commerce and money, art and intellectual life intersected. ... Whole communities ... debated the meaning of freedom and made bids for emancipation and equality. Rebel Cities explores the ways in which these upheavals unfolded in three great urban centres, considering the relationship between city and unrest, and explaining why New York and Paris experienced revolution, while London - although it cam close - ultimately did not."--Book jacket.