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Title Cultural history of early modern European streets / edited by Riitta Laitinen, Thomas V. Cohen
Published Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2009

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Description 1 online resource (176 pages) : illustrations, maps
Contents Cultural history of early modern European streets : an introduction / Riitta Laitinen and Thomas V. Cohen -- Urban landscapes : houses, streets and squares of 18th century Lisbon / Maria Helena Barreiros -- Mechanisms of the hue and cry in Kolozsvár in the second half of the sixteenth century / Emese Bálint -- Urban order and street regulation in seventeenth-century Sweden / Riitta Laitinen and Dag Lindström -- To pray, to work, to hear, to speak : women in Roman streets, c. 1600 / Elizabeth S. Cohen -- Gossip and street culture in early modern Venice / Alexander Cowan -- To see and to be seen : beauty in the early modern London street / Anu Korhonen
Summary In urban life streets are elemental, but urban history seldom places them at centre stage. This title discusses the social and political processes of early modern street life, and the discursive play in which streets figured. It includes six essays that explore the evolving cultural and material life of the early modern European street
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
Print version record
Subject Street life -- Europe -- History
Streets -- Europe -- History
City and town life -- Europe -- History
Cities and towns -- Europe -- History
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology -- Urban.
Cities and towns
City and town life
Manners and customs
Social conditions
Street life
Streets
Urbanisatie.
Dagelijks leven.
Openbare ruimte.
SUBJECT Europe -- Social life and customs. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85045760
Europe -- Social conditions. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85045753
Europe -- History, Local
Subject Europe
Europa (geografie)
Genre/Form History
Local history
Form Electronic book
Author Laitinen, Riitta
Cohen, Thomas V. (Thomas Vance), 1942-
ISBN 9789047425984
9047425987
1282601741
9781282601741
9786612601743
6612601744
OTHER TI Journal of early modern history