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The medieval English borough : Studies on its origins and constitutional history
Abstract from the 1968 edition : Long regarded as the definitive study of the early history of the English medieval borough, this book presents a thorough review of the 'thorny question of origins' and the theories of scholars such as Carl…
The medieval town
The late Fritz Rörig was an Emeritus Professor and member of the Berlin Academy of Sciences. Alternative link to this book via Google Books
Les villes du Moyen Age : essai d'histoire économique et sociale
Présentation par l'éditeur :
Si l'Histoire de Belgique est l'oeuvre qui fit reconnaître universellement Henri Pirenne, ce sont ses travaux d'histoire urbaine qui créèrent sa réputation parmi les…
London : A pilgrimage
From Peter Ackroyd's introduction to the 2005 Anthem Press edition :
"London: A Pilgrimage" is an enlightening work that brings to life the chaotic and gloomy past of a great city on the cusp of modern times. 180 incredible etchings by…
Beyrouth, Grand Beyrouth
Présentation par l'éditeur :
Beyrouth, Grand-Beyrouth. Derrière le titre pour le moins laconique de ce livre, il n'est pas seulement question de la taille de l'agglomération beyrouthine. Pour rendre compte des…
Urban revolt: Ethnic politics in the nineteenth-century Chicago labor movement
Extract from the Preface:
I became interested in nineteenth-century Chicago labor history in an indirect way. I had begun a study of political mobilization in Chicago community organizing and felt that I could not understand the political process…
Living downtown: The history of residential hotels in the United States
Extract from the Preface: In Downtown San Francisco, just one block from the Transamerica pyramid, is the large relict basement of the International Hotel. The lot has stood empty since 1977. In the Western Addition, one and a half miles to the…
Native place, city, and nation: Regional networks and identities in Shanghai, 1853-1937
Extract from the Introduction:
This study explores social practices and rituals related to xxiangyi , also called xiangqing and ziyi , Chinese expressions for the sentiment that binds people from the same native place. This sentiment, and the social…
Red city, blue period: Social movements in Picasso's Barcelona
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The task I have undertaken in this book is to account for the peculiar sense of solidarity that the citizens of Barcelona developed between 1888 and 1939, and to explain why shared experiences of civic culture and…
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…
The imagination of class: Masculinity and the Victorian urban poor
Extract from the Introduction: The poor were always with the English. Poverty had been of broad social concern since the Elizabethan period at least: the topic of ongoing debate, periodic legislation, sporadic philanthropy. But the London poor of…
Rome before Avignon: A social history of thirteenth-century Rome
Abstract from the publisher: Robert Brentano evokes papal Rome in all its paradox and complicated brilliance. From a detailed re-creation of the physical "town" with its series of brick campanili and green and purple mosaic floors, to the…
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…
Inside Greenwich Village : A New York City neighborhood, 1898-1918
From the preface : Most books about twentieth-century Greenwich Village history focus on the artists, writers, and cultural radicals whose activities brought the Village international fame as America's bohemia. Other residents of the Village, if…
Expositions : Literature and architecture in nineteenth-century France
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…
Inventing Lima : Baroque modernity in Peru's south sea metropolis
Abstract from the publisher : Inventing Lima is the first synthetic cultural history of Peru’s baroque “City of the Kings.” Professor Osorio’s interpretation of ritual life in the Peruvian metropolis significantly revises…
American city planning since 1890
Abstract from the publisher :
City planning is an ancient activity but a modern profession. The city planning profession in the United States arose from the urban reform movements of the 1890s and early years of this century. Here, in a volume…
The city : Urban communities and their problems
From the preface : Many recent urban sociology textbooks have come close to abandoning the traditional concern of urban sociology, which is the community in urban society. Emphasis has shifted to individual adaptations to urban society or to…