City limits perspectives on the historical European city /
Deals with the aspects of city life in the European centres such as London, Paris, Augsburg, Amsterdam, Copenhagen and Edinburgh. Covering topics such as governance, performance, high culture and subculture, tourism and journalism, this title offers ways to think about the cities.
| Други автори: | Clark, Glenn, Owens, Judith, 1955-, Smith, Greg T. 1967- |
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| Формат: | Електронен |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
Montreal ; Ithaca :
McGill-Queen's University Press,
℗♭2010.
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| Онлайн достъп: |
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Съдържание:
- Introduction /
- Glenn Clark, Judith Owens, and Greg T. Smith
- Placing the city.
- Preface /
- Peter Lake ;
- What made the Eurasian city work :
- Urban political cultures in early modern Europe and Asia /
- Christopher Friedrichs ;
- Global Yokels :
- vernacular manuscript chronicles and urban identity in early modern Germany /
- Johannes C. Wolfart ;
- Renaissance Venice as a musical model for Copenhagen /
- Susan Lewis Hammond ;
- Walking the city limits :
- the performance of authority and identity in Mary Tudor's Norwich /
- Mary A. Blackstone ;
- Rational luxuries and civilized pleasures :
- nationalizing elite Parisian values, 1848-49 /
- Melanie A. Bailey ;
- The "Divine Little City" and the "Terrible Town" :
- Henry James on Florence and New York /
- Robin Hoople
- Gender, mobility, and the city.
- Preface /
- Arlene Young ;
- Exploring Edinburgh :
- urban tourism in late eighteenth-century Britain /
- Pam Perkins ;
- Clearing the streets :
- blindness and begging in Henry Mayhew's London Labour and the London poor /
- Vanessa Warne ;
- A contested city :
- Gwen John, Suzanne Valadon, and women artists in Fin-fe-Siecle Paris /
- Julie Johnson
- Redressing boundaries.
- Preface /
- Bernard Dov Cooperman ;
- Alls wie mannn inn krieg pflegt zue thuen :
- Music and Catholic processions in Counter-Reformation Augsburg /
- Alexander J. Fisher ;
- Madness in a magnificant building :
- gentile responses to Jewish synagogues in Amsterdam, 1670-1730 /
- Saskia Coenen Snyder ;
- Between history and hope :
- the urban centre of William Blake and William Wordsworth /
- Jon Saklofske ;
- The humours of Sailortown :
- Atlantic history meets subculture theory /
- Isaac Land.