Title & Author:

City walls : the urban enceinte in global perspective / edited by James D. Tracy.

Publication:

New York : Cambridge University Press, 2000.

Description:

xix, 697 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Series:

Studies in comparative early modern history

Notes:
Based on a Center for Early Modern History conference held in Oct. 1995.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 647-662) and index.
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 -- The 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 -- The 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 -- The 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.

Resources:
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Publisher description

ISBN:

0521652219
9780521652216
0521124158 (paperback)
9780521124157 (paperback)

Subject:

City walls History Congresses.
Cities and towns History Congresses.
Villes fortifiées Histoire Congrès.
Villes Histoire Congrès.
Cities and towns.
City walls.
City walls History.
Cities and towns History.
Histoire militaire Congrès.
Urbanisme Histoire.
Murs de villes Histoire Congrès.
Stadsmurar historia.

Form/genre:

Proceedings.
Conference papers and proceedings.
History.
Konferenser.

Added entries:

Tracy, James D.
University of Minnesota. Center for Early Modern History.
Studies in comparative early modern history.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 213182
Call No.: UG405.2 .C5 2000
Status: Available