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1 online resource (155 pages) |
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What is History? |
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What is history?
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| Contents |
Series page; Title page; Copyright page; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Why Urban History?; Notes; 1: The Development of Urban History; Urban History at the Turn of the Twentieth Century; Urban History in North America: The Growth of an Interdisciplinary Phenomenon; The 'Dyos Phenomenon' in Britain; Ways of Doing Urban History; The 'Cultural Turn' in Urban History; An 'Urban Turn' Eastwards; Notes; 2: Cities, Spaces and Identities; Class, Space and the Suburban Ideal; Suburbia as Gendered Space; Poverty, Ethnicity and Gender in the Making of the 'Slum'; Notes; 3: Governing Cities |
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Urban Government and the Social Composition of ElitesFrom Government to Governance; From Governance to Governmentality; Notes; 4: Cities and the Environment; Varieties of Environmental History; Ploughing the Urban Field; From the City Sink to the City Monument; Standing at the Crossroads; Notes; 5: Urban Culture and Modernity; Modernity and the Built Form; The Street as a Site of Modernity; The Experiential Nature of Urban Life; Notes; 6: Transnational Urban History; Thinking about Transnationalism; Locating the Transnational Variable in Urban History; Notes; Suggestions for Further Reading |
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Chapter 1€€€€The Development of Urban HistoryChapter 2€€€€Cities, Spaces and Identities; Chapter 3€€€€Governing Cities; Chapter 4€€€€Cities and the Environment; Chapter 5€€€€Urban Culture and Modernity; Chapter 6€€€€Transnational Urban History; Index; End User License Agreement |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Cities and towns -- Historiography
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Urbanization -- Historiography
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Cities and towns -- Historiography
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781509501342 |
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1509501347 |
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