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Title City limits : perspectives on the historical European city / edited by Glenn Clark, Judith Owens, and Greg T. Smith.

Publication Info. Montreal ; Ithaca : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2010]
©2010

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Description 1 online resource (x, 396 pages) : illustrations
text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 353-389) and index.
Contents 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 : 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 ; "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-Siècle 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 : Urban centre of William Blake and William Wordsworth / Jon Saklofske ; Humours of Sailortown : Atlantic history meets subculture theory / Isaac Land.
Summary 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.
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Subject Cities and towns -- Europe -- History.
Cities and towns.
Europe.
History.
City and town life -- Europe -- History.
City and town life.
Europe -- Social life and customs.
Manners and customs.
Europe -- Social conditions.
Social conditions.
Europe -- History, Local.
Local history.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Local history.
Electronic books.
Added Author Clark, Glenn (Glenn Jeffrey)
Owens, Judith, 1955-
Smith, Greg T. (Greg Thomas), 1967-
Other Form: Print version: 9780773536517 0773536515
ISBN 0773590838 (electronic book)
9780773590830 (electronic book)
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0773536515
0773536523 (paperback)
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