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London labour and the London poor (Vol. 2)

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Extract from the Preface to Volume One : The present volume is the first of an intended series, which it is hoped will form, when complete, a cyclopaedia of the industry, the want, and the vice of the great Metropolis. Henry Mayhew (1812 - 1887)…

Mots-clés: dix-neuvième siècle, London, Londres, Mayhew Henry, nineteenth century, pauvreté, rue, sans-domicile, société urbaine, travail

London labour and the London poor (Vol. 1)

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Full title : London labour and the London poor; a cyclopaedia of the condition and earnings of those that will work, those that cannot work, and those that will not work. Extract from the Preface : The present volume is the first of an intended…

Mots-clés: dix-neuvième siècle, London, Londres, Mayhew Henry, nineteenth century, pauvreté, société urbaine, travail

Keeping the lid on : Urban eruptions and social control since the 19th century

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Abstract from the publisher : The contributors to this book have explored various aspects of urban imagination, so intimately related to a peculiar social environment. They are historians and geographers, linguists and cultural students. Their…

Mots-clés: Barrow Logie, dix-neuvième siècle, émeute, epidemic, épidémie, Finding Susan, gouvernance, histoire urbaine, mémoire, mouvement social, nineteenth century, Poirier François, société urbaine, twentieth century, vingtième siècle

In the watches of the night: Life in the nocturnal city, 1820-1930

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Abstract from the publisher: Before skyscrapers and streetlights glowed at all hours, American cities fell into inky blackness with each setting of the sun. But over the course of the nineteenth and early twentieth century, new technologies began to…

Mots-clés: Baldwin Peter C., délinquance, dix-neuvième siècle, emploi, États-Unis, gender, genre, histoire urbaine, leisure, loisirs, night, nineteenth century, nuit, transport, twentieth century, United States, urbanité, vingtième siècle

Imagining the East End in literature and social survey, 1880-1990

This paper was part of the Anglo-American Conference of historians 2009, on the theme 'cities'. Conference description by the organisers : The conference will deal with cities throughout the world, with papers examining the networks of cities and…

Mots-clés: Dennis Richard, dix-neuvième siècle, East End, fin de siècle, Gissing George, histoire urbaine, imaginaire, littérature, London, Londres, nineteenth century, quartier défavorisé

Imagining low life before the East End's invention, c. 1780s to 1840s

This paper was part of the Anglo-American Conference of historians 2009, on the theme 'cities'. Conference description by the organisers : The conference will deal with cities throughout the world, with papers examining the networks of cities and…

Mots-clés: dix-huitième siècle, dix-neuvième siècle, East End, eighteenth century, Gatrell Vic, histoire urbaine, imaginaire, London, Londres, nineteenth century, pauvreté, quartier défavorisé

How the other half lives

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See also the Collections Portal of the Museum of the City of New York, where more than 1400 photographs taken by Riis are available to view online. See also a LibriVox audio recording of the book. Alternative link to a different full-text version…

Mots-clés: bidonville, dix-neuvième siècle, histoire urbaine, New York, nineteenth century, pauvreté, quartier défavorisé, quartier dégradé, Riis Jacob, société urbaine, tenement, urbanité

Faith in the antebellum urban order : Religion and the making of early 19th-century New York City

Kyle Roberts is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow on the Dissenting Academy Libraries Project at Queen Mary, University of London.

Mots-clés: analyse spatiale, dix-neuvième siècle, environnement urbain, espace urbain, histoire urbaine, New York, nineteenth century, religion, Roberts Kyle, société urbaine

Expositions : Literature and architecture in nineteenth-century France

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Abstract from the publisher : In Expositions, Philippe Hamon leads us on an engaging intellectual stroll through the spaces and representations of the nineteenth-century French metropolis. Inspired by the cultural histories of Walter Benjamin and…

Mots-clés: culture urbaine, dix-neuvième siècle, espace public, exposition universelle, France, great exhibition, Hamon Philippe, histoire de l'architecture, histoire urbaine, littérature, nineteenth century, Paris

Eden on the Charles : The making of Boston

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Abstract from the publisher : Drinking a glass of tap water, strolling in a park, hopping a train for the suburbs: some aspects of city life are so familiar that we don’t think twice about them. But such simple actions are structured by…

Mots-clés: Boston, dix-neuvième siècle, environnement, histoire de l'urbanisme, histoire urbaine, nineteenth century, Rawson Michael

City sites : Multimedia essays on New York and Chicago, 1870s-1930s

Abstract from the publishers : City Sites is an inter- and multi-disciplinary study of the iconography, spatial forms and visual and literary cultures of New York and Chicago in the period 1870s to 1930s. City Sites is the result of collaborative…

Mots-clés: analyse spatiale, Balshaw Maria, Chicago, culture urbaine, dix-neuvième siècle, forme urbaine, histoire urbaine, iconographie, iconography, Kennedy Liam, littérature, New York, nineteenth century, Notaro Anna, Tallack Douglas, twentieth century, vingtième siècle

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