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

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

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Description 1 online resource (x, 396 pages) : illustrations 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 : the 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 ; The "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 : the urban centre of William Blake and William Wordsworth / Jon Saklofske ; The 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 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 353-389) and index Notes Print version record Subject Cities and towns -- Europe -- History City and town life -- Europe -- History HISTORY -- Europe -- Western. HISTORY -- Europe -- General. Cities and towns City and town life Manners and customs Social conditions Stadt Stadtleben Steden. Stadscultuur. Städer -- historia -- Europa. Stadsliv -- historia -- Europa. 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 Europa (geografie) Genre/Form Electronic books History Local history Form Electronic book Author Clark, Glenn (Glenn Jeffrey), editor. Owens, Judith, 1955- editor. Smith, Greg T. (Greg Thomas), 1967- editor. LC no. 2011410086 ISBN 0773590838 9780773590830

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