Why was the experience of revolution so different in the cities of Paris, London and New

York in the late 1700s?

Historian Mike Rapport will be here to talk about his new book, The Unruly City.

The British radicals themselves, the people pressing for democratic reform, they themselves

were adamant that they didn't want to achieve their ends by force.

How has man-made intervention transformed the Great Lakes?

Author Dan Egan will be here to discuss his important new book, The Death and Life

of the Great Lakes.

The pace of the change has been extraordinary and it's come with a lot of pain.

Alexander Altar will give us an update from the literary world.

Plus, we'll talk about what we and the water world are reading.

This is Inside the New York Times Book Review.

I'm Pamela Paul.

Mike Rapport joins us now.

His new book is called The Unruly City, Paris, London and New York in the Age of Revolution.

Mike, thank you for being here.

Very welcome.

It's good to be here.

So, you are a professor of modern European history at the University of Glasgow in Scotland

and author previously of several books, but 1848, Your Revolutions, probably the most

well-known of them.

What interested you in this subject?

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