Wicked city – The many cultur
General:
Name: Wicked city – The many cultur
Format: epub
Size: 1.31 MB
Book:
Title: Wicked City
Author: Nicholas Hewitt
Language: English
Year: 2019
Subjects: History, Nonfiction
Publisher: Hurst
ISBN: 9781805264415
Total pages: N/A
Description:
Marseille is a thoroughly ambiguous place. France’s second city and its major sea-port, its impact on the national imagination is unparalleled. Yet it is also a frontier city, arguably capital of the Mediterranean, and with a traditionally suspect allegiance to the French nation. This apartness, and the city’s long and rich history as home to migrants, workers and organized criminals, has cemented its association in the popular imagination with exoticism and illicit activity. In this history, Nicholas Hewitt explores Marseille’s extraordinary cultural wealth from the Revolution to the present century, charting the development of its bad reputation, its ‘rogue status’ within France, and its international importance. The narratives devoted to this great port city range from the legend of its football team to The Count of Monte Cristo. Hewitt discovers Marseille through the eyes of writers, painters and sculptors, film-makers, music hall stars, architects and rappers; from…
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