Mike Rapport’s The Unruly City: Paris, London, and New York in the Age of Revolution (2017) … “demonstrates how attention to the specific geography and social forces of a city can illuminate a critical question about which the new global history has little to say: Why do people in some places—but not others—become radicalized, driving revolutions into previously uncharted territory?”
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