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Article: Cultural Capitals: Early Modern London and Paris.(Book review)
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- January 1, 2008
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Cultural Capitals: Early Modern London and Paris
By Karen Newman
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2007
In Cultural Capitals, Karen Newman has given us a wide-ranging and invigorating investigation of how urbanization affected cultural production and urban sensibilities in early modern Paris and London. Newman selected these cities not only because of their rapid demographic growth and commercial and political importance, but also, as her title indicates, because they were crucial cultural centers. Books and ballads poured from the presses in both cities; theaters flourished; parks and bridges provided venues for new forms of urban ...