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Cities, sin, and social reform in imperial Germany
Extract from the Introduction: Focusing on Germany during the period when that country experienced its great age of industrial urbanization, this book treats ideas about cities, views of deviant behavior, and the socially reformist implications of…
Cities, texts and social networks, 400–1500
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Cities, Texts and Social Networks examines the experiences of urban life from late antiquity through the close of the fifteenth century, in regions ranging from late Imperial Rome to Muslim Syria, Iraq and al-Andalus,…
City at the center of the world: Space, history, and modernity in Quito
Abstract from the publisher: In the seventeenth century, local Jesuits and Franciscans imagined Quito, the Andean capital of Ecuador, as the “new Rome.” It was the site of miracles and home of saintly inhabitants, the origin of crusades…
City at the point : Essays on the social history of Pittsburgh
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An overview of scholarly research, both published and previously unpublished, on the history of a city that has often served as a case study for measuring social change. It synthesizes the literature and assesses how…
City of dreams: Seminar (no. 528)
Extract from the introduction 'The Problem': Suketu Mehta - Runaway: A chronicle of metropolitan transience
Colin Gordon, "Mapping decline : St. Louis and the fate of the American city" : New books in history
Colonial metropolis : The urban grounds of anti-imperialism and feminism in interwar Paris
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World War I gave colonial migrants and French women unprecedented access to the workplaces and nightlife of Paris. After the war they were expected to return without protest to their homes–either overseas or…
Company towns in the Americas : Landscape, power, and working-class communities
Abstract from the publisher : Company towns were the spatial manifestation of a social ideology and an economic rationale. The contributors to this volume show how national politics, social protest, and local culture transformed those founding…
Contemporary urbanism in Brazil: Beyond Brasília
Abstract from the publisher : For decades, a succession of military regimes and democratic governments in Brazil sought to shape the future of their society through the manipulation of urban spaces. Planned cities were built that reflected the…
Corps et confort dans la ville moderne
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C’est la question de la modernité qui rassemble les inédits et articles de RHG présentés ici. Elle offre une première lecturedes champs et des méthodes que…
Creatively destroying New York : Fantasies, premonitions, and realities in the provisional city
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This lecture places the attack on the World Trade Center in the context of New York's history as a place that is seemingly destined to be destroyed and rebuilt with stunning regularity. It explores three ways of…
This lecture places the attack on the World Trade Center in the context of New York's history as a place that is seemingly destined to be destroyed and rebuilt with stunning regularity. It explores three ways of…
Crime and punishment in Istanbul 1700 - 1800
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This vividly detailed revisionist history exposes the underworld of the largest metropolis of the early modern Mediterranean and through it the entire fabric of a complex, multicultural society. Fariba Zarinebaf maps…
Culture and power in Banaras: Community, performance, and environment, 1800-1980
Extract from the Preface: Several purposes informed the collaborative work behind this volume. First, it provides a sustained examination, from a variety of viewpoints, of one urban place. Banaras was chosen primarily because it had attracted a…
Culture des villes d'eau
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Avant l'aspiration à la démocratisation des loisirs, avant le tourisme de masse, des lieux singuliers semblaient maintenir l'illusion d’une culture européenne commune aux…
De la Courly au Grand Lyon. Histoire d’une communauté urbaine
Alors que son histoire n’avait jamais été écrite, alors que la communauté urbaine de Lyon fait figure de pionnière en France dans de multiples domaines, voici un livre qui tente, à travers de multiples éclairages et en croisant les archives, la…
De Lutèce au Grand Paris. Pour comprendre l’évolution de la ville
Le Pavillon de l’Arsenal lance le premier livre sur l’histoire et l’actualité du Grand Paris destiné aux juniors. "De Lutèce au Grand Paris" raconte de façon pédagogique et ludique les grands moments de l’évolution de Paris et la métropole, ses…
Des religions dans la ville
Des religions dans la ville. Ressorts et stratégies de coexistence dans l'Europe des XVIe-XVIIIe siècles.
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A l’époque moderne, les conflits violents ne sont pas l’unique…
Des toits sur la grève. Le logement des travailleurs et la question sociale à Bombay (1850-1950)
Bombay, capitale indienne de l’économie et des services, forte de 20 millions d’habitants, s’est hissée au rang de cinquième métropole mondiale. Pôle d’attraction des migrations, sa croissance s’est faite au prix de fortes inégalités, si bien…
Des villes à l'ombre des châteaux
Présentation par l'éditeur : À partir de l'an mil, s'amorce ou s'accélère un vaste essor qui stimule également le milieu urbain. On assiste au développement de centres nouveaux que l'on appelle des…