Cities And The Making Of Modern Europe 1750 1914

Author : Andrew Lees
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 052183936X
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cities and the Making of Modern Europe, 1750-1914 written by Andrew Lees and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2007-12-13 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A survey of urbanization and the making of modern Europe from the mid-eighteenth century to the First World War.

Author : Friedrich Lenger
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004233636
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book European Cities in the Modern Era, 1850-1914 written by Friedrich Lenger and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2012-08-17 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In European Cities in the Modern Era, 1850-1914 Friedrich Lenger analyses the demographic and economic preconditions of European urbanization, compares the extent to which Europe’s cities were characterized by heterogeneity with respect to the social, national and religious composition of its population and asks in which way differences resulting from this heterogeneity were resolved either peacefully or violently. Using this general perspective and extending the scope by including Eastern and Southern Europe the dominant view of Europe’s prewar cities as islands of modernity is challenged and the ubiquity of urban violence established as a central analytical problem.

Author : Rosemary Wakeman
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 135001768X
Total Pages : 393 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Modern History of European Cities written by Rosemary Wakeman and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-01-23 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rosemary Wakeman's original survey text comprehensively explores modern European urban history from 1815 to the present day. It provides a journey to cities and towns across the continent, in search of the patterns of development that have shaped the urban landscape as indelibly European. The focus is on the built environment, the social and cultural transformations that mark the patterns of continuity and change, and the transition to modern urban society. Including over 60 images that serve to illuminate the analysis, the book examines whether there is a European city, and if so, what are its characteristics? Wakeman offers an interdisciplinary approach that incorporates concepts from cultural and postcolonial studies, as well as urban geography, and provides full coverage of urban society not only in western Europe, but also in eastern and southern Europe, using various cities and city types to inform the discussion. The book provides detailed coverage of the often-neglected urbanization post-1945 which allows us to more clearly understand the modernizing arc Europe has followed over the last two centuries.

Author : Christopher R. Friedrichs
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317901843
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Early Modern City 1450-1750 written by Christopher R. Friedrichs and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-06-06 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A pioneering text which covers the urban society of early modern Europe as a whole. Challenges the usual emphasis on regional diversity by stressing the extent to which cities across Europe shared a common urban civilization whose major features remained remarkably constant throughout the period. After outlining the physical, political, religious, economic and demographic parameters of urban life, the author vividly depicts the everyday routines of city life and shows how pitifully vulnerable city-dwellers were to disasters, epidemics, warfare and internal strife.

Author : Jonathan Conlin
Publisher : Catapult
ISBN 13 : 1619024403
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tales of Two Cities written by Jonathan Conlin and published by Catapult. This book was released on 2014-09-16 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paris and London have long held a mutual fascination, and never more so than in the period 1750–1914, when they vied to be the world's greatest city. Each city has been the focus of many books, yet Jonathan Conlin here explores the complex relationship between them for the first time. The reach and influence of both cities was such that the story of their rivalry has global implications. By borrowing, imitating and learning from each other Paris and London invented the true metropolis. Tales of Two Cities examines and compares five urban spaces—the pleasure garden, the cemetery, the apartment, the restaurant and the music hall—that defined urban modernity in the nineteenth century. The citizens of Paris and London first created these essential features of the modern cityscape and so defined urban living for all of us.

Author : Friedrich Lenger
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004233385
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book European Cities in the Modern Era, 1850-1914 written by Friedrich Lenger and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2012-08-17 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 'European Cities in the Modern Era, 1850/80-1914', Friedrich Lenger offers an account of Europe's major cities in a period crucial for the development of much of their present shape and infrastructure.

Author : Leif Jerram
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191501182
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Streetlife written by Leif Jerram and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2011-02-24 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The twentieth century in Europe was an urban century: it was shaped by life in, and the view from, the street. Women were not liberated in legislatures, but liberated themselves in factories, homes, nightclubs, and shops. Lenin, Hitler, and Mussolini made themselves powerful by making cities ungovernable with riots rampaging through streets, bars occupied one-by-one. New forms of privacy and isolation were not simply a by-product of prosperity, but because people planned new ways of living, new forms of housing in suburbs and estates across the continent. Our proudest cultural achievements lie not in our galleries or state theatres, but in our suburban TV sets, the dance halls, pop music played in garages, and hip hop sung on our estates. In Streetlife, Leif Jerram presents a totally new history of the twentieth century, with the city at its heart, showing how everything distinctive about the century, from revolution and dictatorship to sexual liberation, was fundamentally shaped by the great urban centres which defined it.

Author : Christopher R. Friedrichs
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134822251
Total Pages : 110 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Urban Politics in Early Modern Europe written by Christopher R. Friedrichs and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-01-04 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Urban Politics in Early Modern Europe is an important survey of the complex relationships between urban politics and regional and national politics in Europe from 1500 to 1789. In an era when the national state was far less developed than today, crucial decisions about economic, religious and social policy were often settled at the municipal level. Cities were frequently the scenes of sudden tensions or bitter conflicts between ordinary citizens and the urban elite, and the threat of civic unrest often underlay the political dynamics of early modern cities. With vivid descriptions of events in cities in central Europe, England, France, Italy and Spain, this book outlines the forms of political interaction in the early modern city. Urban Politics in Early Modern Europe takes a fascinating comparative approach to the nature of conflict and conflict resolution in early modern communities throughout Europe.

Author : Peter Clark
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199589534
Total Pages : 913 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Cities in World History written by Peter Clark and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2013-02-14 with total page 913 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2008 for the first time the majority of the planet's inhabitants lived in cities and towns. Becoming globally urban has been one of mankind's greatest collective achievements over time. Written by leading scholar, this is the first detailed survey of the world's cities and towns from ancient times to the present day.

Author : Colin Heywood
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521866235
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Childhood in Modern Europe written by Colin Heywood and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-09-06 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This invaluable introduction to the history of childhood in both Western and Eastern Europe c.1700-2000 seeks to give a voice to children as well as adults, wherever possible. It addresses a number of key topics, including conceptions of childhood, ideas about family life, culture, welfare, schooling, and work.