Urban History

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...

Cities and Solidarities charts the ways in which the study of individuals and places revitalises our understanding of urban communities as dynamic interconnections of solidarities in pre-modern Europe. Combining theoretical frameworks with digital methodologies, this volume sheds new light on the so..

This book explores the cultural imprint of military conflict on metropolises worldwide in the First and Second World Wars. It brings together cultural and urban historians and scholars of anthropology, education, geography, and urban planning, and examines how the emergence of 'total' warfare blurre..

This book explores the cultural imprint of military conflict on metropolises worldwide in the First and Second World Wars. It brings together cultural and urban historians and scholars of anthropology, education, geography, and urban planning, and examines how the emergence of 'total' warfare blurre..

Based on a wide variety of government and civic records, this book traces the evolution of the changing nature of city status in Britain through the nineteenth and twentieth centuries...

Civil society has become central to the historian's understanding of class, cultural and political power in the nineteenth century town and city. This volume brings together essays by an international group of urban historians who examine the construction of civil society from associational activit..

Civil society has become central to the historian's understanding of class, cultural and political power in the nineteenth century town and city. This volume brings together essays by an international group of urban historians who examine the construction of civil society from associational activit..

This work is in part a study of the creation of professional authority and autonomy by museum curators. More importantly though, it is about the stablization of middle-class identities by the end of the nineteenth century around new hierarchies of cultural capital. By examining urban identities thro..

This work is in part a study of the creation of professional authority and autonomy by museum curators. More importantly though, it is about the stablization of middle-class identities by the end of the nineteenth century around new hierarchies of cultural capital. By examining urban identities thro..

This work discusses the development in Dacca of western-style municipal organization and its financial and practical problems and also explores the economic transition of the city after 1840...

This volume considers the connections between large cities, the public and young people in the twentieth century. The essays present both social and cultural historical case studies from across Europe on youth culture and youth groups as well as research on public discourses about the practices of t..

This volume considers the connections between large cities, the public and young people in the twentieth century. The essays present both social and cultural historical case studies from across Europe on youth culture and youth groups as well as research on public discourses about the practices of t..