A Guide To European Town Directories

Author : Gareth Shaw
Publisher : Routledge Revivals
ISBN 13 : 9781138610033
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Guide to European Town Directories written by Gareth Shaw and published by Routledge Revivals. This book was released on 2018-08-06 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1997, European Directories is a major resource guide for urban historians and historical geographers. It provides a detailed bibliography of all directories published and available in major libraries throughout Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Denmark and Scandinavia. In addition, the book provides an account of the evolution of town directories, as well as giving an analysis of directory reliability and coverage. Researchers will also find an extensive bibliography for each country of literature that has utilized directory information in historical studies. The second volume includes France and southern Europe. The whole provides the first European-wide resource for those undertaking urban historical studies.

Author : Gareth Shaw
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
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Author : Gareth Shaw
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429863330
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Guide to European Town Directories written by Gareth Shaw and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-12-12 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1997, European Directories is a major resource guide for urban historians and historical geographers. It provides a detailed bibliography of all directories published and available in major libraries throughout Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Denmark and Scandinavia. In addition, the book provides an account of the evolution of town directories, as well as giving an analysis of directory reliability and coverage. Researchers will also find an extensive bibliography for each country of literature that has utilized directory information in historical studies. The second volume includes France and southern Europe. The whole provides the first European-wide resource for those undertaking urban historical studies.

Author : Gareth Shaw
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Guide to European Town Directories: Germany, Austria, Switzerland, and Scandinavia written by Gareth Shaw and published by Ashgate Publishing. This book was released on 1997 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A resource guide for urban historians and historical geographers. It aims to provide a detailed bibliography of all directories published and available in major libraries throughout Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Denmark and Scandinavia. In addition the book aims to provide an account of the evolution of town directories, as well as give an analysis of directory availability and coverage. There is a bibliography for each country of literature that has utilized directory information in historical studies.

Author : G. P. Henderson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Catalogus Van Europese Adresboeken written by G. P. Henderson and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Gareth Shaw
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0567519759
Total Pages : 472 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book British Directories 2nd ed written by Gareth Shaw and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2010-06-15 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arranged in three parts, this bibliography and guide to British directories in its second edition explains their evolution, describes the different types of directories and their content, and offers a new chapter on the use of directory material in historical studies. Over 2200 directory titles are listed, with indexes by publisher, place and subject. This updated edition also provides a guide to the 120 library collections of directories.

Author : Jani Vuolteenaho
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351947265
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Critical Toponymies written by Jani Vuolteenaho and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-03-02 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While place names have long been studied by a few devoted specialists, approaches to them have been traditionally empiricist and uncritical in character. This book brings together recent works that conceptualize the hegemonic and contested practices of geographical naming. The contributors guide the reader into struggles over toponymy in a multitude of national and local contexts across Europe, North America, New Zealand, Asia and Africa. In a ground-breaking and multidisciplinary fashion, this volume illuminates the key role of naming in the colonial silencing of indigenous cultures, canonization of nationalistic ideals into nomenclature of cities and topographic maps, as well as the formation of more or less fluid forms of postcolonial and urban identities.

Author : James S. Amelang
Publisher : Central European University Press
ISBN 13 : 9637326545
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Writing Cities written by James S. Amelang and published by Central European University Press. This book was released on 2019-12-15 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Only one out of ten early modern Europeans lived in cities. Yet cities were crucial nodes, joining together producers and consumers, rulers and ruled, and believers in diverse faiths and futures. They also generated an enormous amount of writing, much of which focused on civic life itself. But despite its obvious importance, historians have paid surprisingly little attention to urban discourse; its forms, themes, emphases and silences all invite further study. This book explores three dimensions of early modern citizens’ writing about their cities: the diverse social backgrounds of the men and women who contributed to urban discourse; their notions of what made for a beautiful city; and their use of dialogue as a literary vehicle particularly apt for expressing city life and culture. Amelang concludes that early modern urban discourse increasingly moves from oral discussion to take the form of writing. And while the dominant tone of those who wrote about cities continued to be one of celebration and glorification, over time a more detached and less judgmental mode developed. More and more they came to see their fundamental task as presenting a description that was objective.

Author : Albert John Walford
Publisher : London : Library Association Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1212 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Walford's Guide to Reference Material: Generalia, language and literature, the arts written by Albert John Walford and published by London : Library Association Publishing. This book was released on 1996 with total page 1212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Geoffrey Crossick
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429640420
Total Pages : 326 pages
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Download or read book Cathedrals of Consumption written by Geoffrey Crossick and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-01-04 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1999, Cathedrals of Consumption examines the history of the department store. After many decades in which it was almost exclusively historians of retailing and company biographers who were interested in the phenomenon, the department store has now come to attract the attention of historians of culture, consumption, gender, urban life and much more. Indeed, the department store in its classic era of expansive growth has often seemed better than anything else to embody the cultural and social modernity of its time. The articles in this book range widely in presenting the breadth of these new approaches to department store history. An introductory essay explores the questions that surround the department store from its appearance in the mid-nineteenth century, through its golden age in the decades before the First World War, to the challenges posed in the more competitive world of inter-war Europe. A dozen contributors - writing about Britain, France, Germany, Belgium and Hungary - then examine themes as varied as the new public space which department stores provided for women, the politics of consumption, the architecture of the new stores, the training of the workforce, the cult of shopping, advertising strategies, shoplifting, employer organisations, and the geographical spread of the new stores, while a comparison with eighteenth-century London raises the question of just how new the department store was.