City limits perspectives on the historical European city /
edited by Glenn Clark, Judith Owens, and Greg T. Smith.
- Montreal ; Ithaca : McGill-Queen's University Press, (c)2010.
- 1 online resource (x, 396 pages) illustrations.
Includes bibliographies and index.
Placing the city. What made the Eurasian city work -- -- Urban political cultures in early modern Europe and Asia / Global Yokels -- -- vernacular manuscript chronicles and urban identity in early modern Germany / Renaissance Venice as a musical model for Copenhagen / Walking the city limits -- -- the performance of authority and identity in Mary Tudor's Norwich / Rational luxuries and civilized pleasures -- -- nationalizing elite Parisian values, 1848-49 / The "Divine Little City" and the "Terrible Town" -- -- Henry James on Florence and New York / Gender, mobility, and the city. Exploring Edinburgh -- -- urban tourism in late eighteenth-century Britain / Clearing the streets -- -- blindness and begging in Henry Mayhew's London Labour and the London poor / A contested city -- -- Gwen John, Suzanne Valadon, and women artists in Fin-fe-Siècle Paris / Redressing boundaries. Alls wie mannn inn krieg pflegt zue thuen -- -- Music and Catholic processions in Counter-Reformation Augsburg / Madness in a magnificant building -- -- gentile responses to Jewish synagogues in Amsterdam, 1670-1730 / Between history and hope -- -- the urban centre of William Blake and William Wordsworth / The humours of Sailortown -- -- Atlantic history meets subculture theory / Glenn Clark, Judith Owens, and Greg T. Smith -- Peter Lake -- Christopher Friedrichs -- Johannes C. Wolfart -- Susan Lewis Hammond -- Mary A. Blackstone -- Melanie A. Bailey -- Robin Hoople -- Arlene Young -- Pam Perkins -- Vanessa Warne -- Julie Johnson -- Bernard Dov Cooperman -- Alexander J. Fisher -- Saskia Coenen Snyder -- Jon Saklofske -- Isaac Land.
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