The city and the senses : urban culture since 1500 /
The essays in this volume take an interdisciplinary and wide ranging look at urban history through the five senses of sight, sound, touch, taste and smell. By spanning pre-industrial and modern cities it enables the reader to establish major contrasts and continuities in what is still an evolving ur...
| Други автори: | Cowan, Alexander., Steward, Jill. |
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| Формат: | Електронна книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT :
Ashgate,
℗♭2007.
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| Серия: |
Historical urban studies.
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| Онлайн достъп: |
http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=270595 |
| Подобни документи: |
Print version::
City and the senses. |
Съдържание:
- Introduction / Jill Steward and Alexander Cowan
- Stench in sixteenth-century Venice / Jo Wheeler
- 'Not carrying out the vile and mechanical arts' : touch as a measure of social distinction in early modern Venice / Alexander Cowan
- Speaking and listening in early modern London / Laura Wright
- Engineering vision in early modern Paris / Ulf Strohmayer
- Touching London : contact, sensibility, and the city / Ava Arndt
- Sewers and sensibilities : the bourgeois faecal experience in the nineteenth-century city / David Inglis
- 'We demand good and healthy beer' : the nutritional and social significance of beer for the lower classes in mid-nineteenth-century Munich / Kim Carpenter
- Boulevard culture and advertising as spectacle in nineteenth-century Paris / Hazel Hahn
- A taste of Vienna : food as a signifier of urban modernity in Vienna, 1890-1930 / Janet Stewart
- Seeing imperial Berlin : Lesser Ury, the painter as stranger / Dorothy Rowe
- Street noises : celebrating the liberation of Paris in music and dance / Rosemary Wakeman.