Title & Author:

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

Publication:

Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, ©2010.

Description:

x, 396 pages ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 353-389 and index.
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:

In this book contributors examine European cities through the lenses of history, literature, art, architecture, and music. Covering topics such as governance, performance, high culture and subculture, tourism, and journalism.

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ISBN:

9780773536517 (hbk.)
0773536515 (hbk.)
9780773536524 (pbk.)
0773536523 (pbk.)

Subject:

Cities and towns Europe History.
City and town life Europe History.
Villes Europe Histoire.
Vie urbaine Europe Histoire.
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.
Europe Social life and customs.
Europe Social conditions.
Europe History, Local.
Europe Mœurs et coutumes.
Europe Conditions sociales.
Europe Histoire locale.
Europe.
Europa
Europa (geografie)

Form/genre:

History.
Local history.

Added entries:

Owens, Judith.
Smith, Greg T. (Greg Thomas), 1967-
Clark, Glenn (Glenn Jeffrey)
Owens, Judith, 1955-

Holdings:

Location: Library main 275241
Call No.: BIB 209303
Notes: hbk.
Status: Available