| Description |
xix, 697 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
Studies in comparative early modern history
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Studies in comparative early modern history.
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| Contents |
Introduction / James D. Tracy -- Contained communities in tropical Africa / Graham Connah -- Palisaded settlements in prehistoric eastern North America / George R. Milner -- To wall or not to wall : evidence from medieval Germany / James D. Tracy -- Medieval walled space : urban development vs. defense / Kathryn L. Reyerson -- A world without walls : city and town in colonial Spanish America / Richard L. Kagan -- Fortifications of Epaminondas and the rise of the monumental Greek city / Frederick A. Cooper -- Imperial walled cities in the West : an examination of their early medieval Nachleben / Bernard S. Bachrach -- Walled cities in Islamic North Africa and Egypt with particular reference to the Fatamids (909-1171) / Jonathan M. Bloom -- Delhi walled : changing boundaries / Catherine B. Asher -- Ottoman military architecture in the early gunpowder era : a reassessment / Simon Pepper -- Walled towns during the French wars of religion (1560-1630) / Michael Wolfe -- Portuguese urban fortifications in Morocco : borrowing, adaptation, and innovation along a military frontier / Martin M. Elbl -- Artillery fortress as an engine of European overseas expansion, 1480-1750 / Geoffrey Parker -- Representations of Chinese walled cities in the pictorial and graphic arts / Nancy Shatzman Steinhardt -- Hierarchy of Ming city walls / Edward L. Farmer -- Decoration of city walls in the medieval Islamic world : the epigraphic message / Sheila S. Blair -- Medieval French representations of city and other walls / Wolfgang G. van Emden -- Siege law, siege ritual, and the symbolism of city walls in Renaissance Europe / Simon Pepper -- Representations of the city in siege views of the seventeenth century : the war of military images and their production / Martha Pollak. |
| Note |
Based on a Center for Early Modern History conference held in Oct. 1995. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 647-662) and index. |
| Subject |
City walls -- History -- Congresses.
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City walls. |
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History. |
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Cities and towns -- History -- Congresses.
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Cities and towns. |
| Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings.
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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| Subject |
Military history.
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Villes fortifiées -- Histoire -- Congrès. |
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City walls -- History.
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Villes -- Histoire -- Congrès. |
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Cities and towns -- History.
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| Added Author |
Tracy, James D.
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University of Minnesota. Center for Early Modern History.
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| ISBN |
0521652219 |
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