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Title Cities and the Circulation of Culture in the Atlantic World : From the Early Modern to Modernism / Leonard von Morzé, editor.

Publication Info. New York : Palgrave Macmillan, [2017]
©2017

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 266 pages)
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Series The New Urban Atlantic
New urban Atlantic.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Summary "This book provides a much-needed comparative approach to the history of cities by investigating the dissemination of cultural forms between cities of the Atlantic world. The contributors attend to the various forms and norms of cultural representation in Atlantic history, examining a wealth of diverse topics such as the Portuguese Atlantic; the Spanish Empire; Guy Fawkes and the conspiratorial rhetoric of slaves; Albert-Charles Wulffleff and the Parc-Musée of Dakar; and the writings of Jane Austen, Alexis de Tocqueville, Benjamin Franklin, and others. By interpreting Atlantic urban history through sustained attention to customs and representational forms, an international group of nine contributors demonstrate the power of culture in the making of Atlantic urban experience, even as they acknowledge the harsh realities of economic history"-- Provided by publisher
Contents Cities and the Circulation of Culture in the Atlantic World; Acknowledgments; Contents; About this Book; List of Figures; 1 Introduction; Notes; Part I Spatial Organization in the Early Modern Atlantic; 2 Invisible Cities: Natural and Social Space in Colonial Brazil; The Invisible Cities of Coastal Brazil; The vila and the aldeia; The Imperial Revenge of the Amerindian World; Notes; 3 Courtly Ceremonies and a Cultural Urban Geography of Power in the Habsburg Spanish Empire; The City as Theater of Royal Ceremony and Stage for the Exercise of Kingly Power; The King's Body and Royal Ceremony.
Kingly Ceremony and Imperial LegitimacyBaroque Modernity, the Atlantic, and the Spanish Empire; Notes; 4 Pirates, Politicians, and Urban Intellectuals: Toward a Cultural History of the Atlantic Frontier; i; ii; Notes; Part II Figures of the Circulating Self; 5 "Blazing Effects": The 1605 Gunpowder Treason and the Rhetoric of Slave Conspiracy; The Imagery of Treason: Catholic Conspiracy and the Geography of Gunpowder; Atlantic Commemoration and Gunpowder Plots; Notes; 6 Circling the Squares: City-Building in Benjamin Franklin's Autobiography; Boston; Philadelphia I: Going Round the Town.
Round-Trip to LondonPhiladelphia II: Circulating an Urban Personality; Interstices: The Grids of Virtuous Improvement; Philadelphia III: Circulation and the Urban Grid; Circulation and Composition; Conclusion: Toward Perpetual Motion; Notes; 7 Atlantic Thinking in Jane Austen's Novels; Notes; Part III Imagined Cities and Atlantic Modernism; 8 Open Doors, Closed Spaces: The Transatlantic Imaginary in American City Writing from Postrevolutionary Literature to Modernism; Introduction: Toward an Aesthetics of Cross-Atlantic Mapmaking; From Open City to Shrinking City.
The Labyrinthine Aesthetics of the Walking CityOpen Doors and Walled Streets: Atlantic Cities as Imagined Landscapes; Conclusion; Notes; 9 English-Canadian Actresses and the Multiple Networks of the Urban Atlantic, 1890s-1920s; Notes; 10 A Museum is Born: Albert-Charles Wulffleff and the Parc-Musée of Dakar, 1936; Introduction; Knowledge; History; Art Deco; Souvenir Africain; Collections; Colonial Expositions; But First, a Palace; Epilogue; Notes; General Index; Index Of City Names.
Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject Atlantic Ocean Region -- Civilization.
Atlantic Ocean Region -- Relations.
Cities and towns -- Atlantic Ocean Region -- History.
Civilization, Modern.
Literature: history & criticism.
History of the Americas.
Literary studies: from c 1900.
Literary studies: general.
HISTORY -- World.
Cities and towns
Civilization
Civilization, Modern
International relations
Atlantic Ocean Region
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History
Added Author Von Morzé, Leonard, 1975- editor. https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PCjFDRy6GVmWtk3b8XRcy7d
In: Springer eBooks
Other Form: Print version: Von Morzé, Leonard. Cities and the Circulation of Culture in the Atlantic World : From the Early Modern to Modernism. New York : Palgrave Macmillan US, ©2017 9781137541291
ISBN 9781137526069
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1137541296
9781137541291
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