Resources of the City

Bill Luckin

• Paperback | Engels | Historical Urban Studies
• The field of urban environmental history is a relatively new one, yet it is rapidly moving to the forefront of scholarly research and is the focus of ... Lees meer

Corruption in Urban Politics and Society, Britain 1780-1950

John Smith

• Hardcover | Engels | Historical Urban Studies
• Despite much recent interest in the area of urban governance, little work has been done on the changing ethical standards of urban leaderships, 'gover... Lees meer

European Cities, Youth and the Public Sphere in the Twentieth Century

Detlef Siegfried

• Paperback | Engels | Historical Urban Studies
• The late nineteenth century witnessed unprecedented levels of urban growth as migration swelled the population of European cities to new heights. The ... Lees meer

Civil Society, Associations and Urban Places

Boudien De Vries

• Hardcover | Engels | Historical Urban Studies
• In recent years the concept of 'civil society' has become central to the historian's understanding of class, cultural and political power in the ninet... Lees meer

Urban Governance

Robert J Morris, Richard H Trainor

• Hardcover | Engels | Historical Urban Studies
• This is a coherent and integrated set of essays around the theme of governance addressing a wide range of questions on the organisation and legitimati... Lees meer

Public Health and Municipal Policy Making

Marjaana Niemi

• Paperback | Engels | Historical Urban Studies
• Public health policies had a profound impact on urban life in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, yet relatively few people took an act... Lees meer

The Making of an Indian Metropolis

Prashant Kidambi

• Hardcover | Engels | Historical Urban Studies
• This book explores the social history of colonial Bombay in the late Victorian and Edwardian eras, a pivotal time in its emergence as a modern metropo... Lees meer

Civil Society, Associations and Urban Places

Boudien De Vries

• Paperback | Engels | Historical Urban Studies
• In recent years the concept of 'civil society' has become central to the historian's understanding of class, cultural and political power in the ninet... Lees meer

The Natural Order and Other Texts

Asger Jorn, Peter Shield

• Hardcover | Engels | Historical Urban Studies
• In The Natural Order and Other Texts, Peter Shield presents the first English translations of the artist Asger Jorn's three philosophical texts - The ... Lees meer

Corruption in Urban Politics and Society, Britain 1780-1950

John Smith

• Paperback | Engels | Historical Urban Studies
• This collection of eleven essays looks at issues of corruption in urban Britain from 1780-1950. The contributions are drawn from a wide range of schol... Lees meer

Urban Governance

Robert J Morris, Richard H Trainor

• Paperback | Engels | Historical Urban Studies
• This is a coherent and integrated set of essays around the theme of governance addressing a wide range of questions on the organisation and legitimati... Lees meer

The Making of an Indian Metropolis

Prashant Kidambi

• Paperback | Engels | Historical Urban Studies
• This book investigates the social history of colonial Bombay in the late Victorian and Edwardian eras. Drawing together strands that have hitherto bee... Lees meer

Who Ran the Cities?

Ralf Roth

• Paperback | Engels | Historical Urban Studies
• This volume furthers our understanding of who actually ran cities in the eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and develops greater understa... Lees meer

Cities into Battlefields

Stefan Goebel

• Hardcover | Engels | Historical Urban Studies
• Cities have always had a key role in warfare, as strategic centres which periodically suffered the horrors of siege and sack. With industrialisation, ... Lees meer

Resources of the City

Bill Luckin

• Hardcover | Engels | Historical Urban Studies
• The field of urban environmental history is a relatively new one, yet it is rapidly moving to the forefront of scholarly research and is the focus of ... Lees meer

Paris-Edinburgh

Siân Reynolds

• Hardcover | Engels | Historical Urban Studies
• By the end of the nineteenth century, Paris was widely acknowledged as the cultural capital of the world, the home of avant-garde music and art, symbo... Lees meer

The Artisan and the European Town, 1500-1900

• Paperback | Engels | Historical Urban Studies
• Artisans played a central role in the European town as it developed from the Middles Ages onwards. Their workshops were at the heart of productive act... Lees meer

Urban Societies in East-Central Europe, 1500-1700

Jaroslav Miller

• Hardcover | Engels | Historical Urban Studies
• Whilst much has been written about early modern urban history, the majority of this work has focussed on Western Europe with relatively little availab... Lees meer

The City and the Senses

Jill Steward

• Paperback | Engels | Historical Urban Studies
• The essays in this volume take an interdisciplinary and wide ranging look at urban history through the five senses of sight, sound, touch, taste and s... Lees meer

The Artisan and the European Town, 1500-1900

• Hardcover | Engels | Historical Urban Studies
• Artisans played a central role in the European town as it developed from the Middles Ages onwards. Their workshops were at the heart of productive act... Lees meer

Who Ran the Cities?

Ralf Roth

• Hardcover | Engels | Historical Urban Studies
• The question of who actually ran cities in the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries has been increasingly debated in recent years. As well ... Lees meer

Urban Fortunes

Jon Stobart, Alastair Owens

• Paperback | Engels | Historical Urban Studies
• Property is central to any historical analyses of production, reproduction and consumption. It lies at the heart of discussions of material culture, c... Lees meer

Urban Fortunes

Jon Stobart, Alastair Owens

• Hardcover | Engels | Historical Urban Studies
• Property is central to any historical analyses of production, reproduction and consumption. It lies at the heart of discussions of material culture, c... Lees meer

The Market and the City

Donatella Calabi

• Paperback | Engels | Historical Urban Studies
• The early modern period is often characterised as a time that witnessed the rise of a new and powerful merchant class across Europe. From Italy and Sp... Lees meer