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This is a well-researched, captivating, and elegantly written book that makes an important intervention in the considerable—one might even say formidable—historiography of nineteenth-century Paris. Ideals of the Body is urban history that is exciting and often fascinating because of its innovative and creative framework, bringing to bear multidisciplinary approaches drawn from architectural, urban, political, social, and medical history."""" - H. Hazel Hahn, author of Scenes of Parisian Modernity: Culture and Consumption in the Nineteenth Century """"Depictions of life in nineteenth-century Paris have often pivoted on the thickening, morphing built texture of Paris. Expanding upon this, Sun-Young Park reveals a network of overlooked spaces that were especially important in their variety and complexity to the map of the emerging bourgeois social world. Ideals of the Body explores this part of the puzzle-that-is-Paris with impressive clarity."""" - David T. Van Zanten, Northwestern University

Depictions of life in nineteenth-century Paris have often pivoted on the thickening, morphing built texture of Paris. Expanding upon this, Sun-Young Park reveals a network of overlooked spaces that were especially important in their variety and complexity to the map of the emerging bourgeois social world. Ideals of the Body explores this part of the puzzle-that-is-Paris with impressive clarity. --David T. Van Zanten, Northwestern University This is a well-researched, captivating, and elegantly written book that makes an important intervention in the considerable--one might even say formidable--historiography of nineteenth-century Paris. Ideals of the Body is urban history that is exciting and often fascinating because of its innovative and creative framework, bringing to bear multidisciplinary approaches drawn from architectural, urban, political, social, and medical history. --H. Hazel Hahn, author of Scenes of Parisian Modernity: Culture and Consumption in the Nineteenth Century

This is a well-researched, captivating, and elegantly written book that makes an important intervention in the considerable-one might even say formidable-historiography of nineteenth-century Paris. Ideals of the Body is urban history that is exciting and often fascinating because of its innovative and creative framework, bringing to bear multidisciplinary approaches drawn from architectural, urban, political, social, and medical history. - H. Hazel Hahn, author of Scenes of Parisian Modernity: Culture and Consumption in the Nineteenth Century Depictions of life in nineteenth-century Paris have often pivoted on the thickening, morphing built texture of Paris. Expanding upon this, Sun-Young Park reveals a network of overlooked spaces that were especially important in their variety and complexity to the map of the emerging bourgeois social world. Ideals of the Body explores this part of the puzzle-that-is-Paris with impressive clarity. - David T. Van Zanten, Northwestern University

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Sun-Young Park is assistant professor in the Department of History and Art History at George Mason University.

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