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"Reading the Royal Monument in Eighteenth-Century Europe" is the first in-depth study of the major role played by royal monuments in the public space of expanding cities across eighteenth-century Europe. Using the royal monuments as the basis for its examination of modern European cities, the book considers the development of urban landscapes from the creation of capital cities to the last members of the ancient regimes and at how absolute monarchy affected the cityscapes of the time. The focus of the book thereby intersects across a spectrum of disciplines, including the social history of cities, the politics of city-planning, the architectural history of cities and monuments, and the culture of the eighteenth century as a whole.