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City limits : perspectives on the historical European city / edited by Glenn Clark, Judith Owens, and Greg T. Stmith.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Clark, Glenn, Author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Cities and towns--Europe--History.
- Cities and towns.
- City and town life--Europe--History.
- City and town life.
- Europe--Social life and customs.
- Europe.
- Europe--Social conditions.
- Europe--History, Local.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (407 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, c2010.
- 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.
- Contents:
- ""Cover""; ""Title""; ""Copyright""; ""Contents""; ""Figures and Tables""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction""; ""PART ONE: PLACING THE CITY""; ""Preface""; ""1 What Made the Eurasian City Work? Urban Political Cultures in Early Modern Europe and Asia""; ""2 Global Yokels: Vernacular Manuscript Chronicles and Urban Identity in Early Modern Germany""; ""3 Renaissance Venice as a Musical Model for Copenhagen""; ""4 Walking The City Limits: The Performance of Authority and Identity in Mary Tudor's Norwich""
- ""10 Alls wie mann inn krieg pflegt zue thuen: Music and Catholic Processions in Counter-Reformation Augsburg""""11 ""Madness in a Magnificent Building"": Gentile Responses to Jewish Synagogues in Amsterdam, 1670�1730""; ""12 Between History and Hope: The Urban Centre of William Blake and William Wordsworth""; ""13 The Humours of Sailortown: Atlantic History Meets Subculture Theory""; ""Postscript""; ""Bibliography""; ""Contributors""; ""Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""V""
- ""W""""Z""
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [353]-389) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-7735-9083-8
- OCLC:
- 817559532
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