Bibliography
This bibliography is taken from History Online, which provides bibliographic information on books and journal articles published by UK academic publishers. The bibliography below represents a selection of books on topics related to urban history in History Online. Search History Online for other books and journal articles.
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London
Walking the Streets of Eighteenth-Century London: John Gay's Trivia (1716)
Edited by Clare Brant and Susan E. Whyman
Published 2007; ISBN 978-0-19-928049-0
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Hubbub: Filth, Noise, and Stench in England, 1600–1770
Emily Cockayne
Published 2008; ISBN 9780300137569
Yale University Press
London Politics, 1760-1914
Matthew Cragoe & Antony Taylor
Published 2005; ISBN 9781403990006
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First Day of the Blitz
Peter Stansky
Published 2007; ISBN 9780300125566
Yale University Press
Northern Clerkenwell and Pentonville, vol. 47
Survey of London
Published 2007; ISBN 9780300139372
Yale University Press
South and East Clerkenwell, vol. 46
Survey of London
Published 2007; ISBN 9780300137279
Yale University Press
Other UK cities
City Status in the British Isles, 1830–2002
John Beckett
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.
Published 2005; ISBN 978-0-7546-5067-6
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Decline, Renewal and the City in Popular Music Culture: Beyond the Beatles
Sara Cohen
How is popular music culture connected with the life, image, and identity of a city? How, for example, did the Beatles emerge in Liverpool, come to be categorized as part of Liverpool culture and identity and used to develop and promote the city? This book explores the relationship between popular music and the city using Liverpool as a case study. It examines the impact of social and economic change on popular music culture, focusing on de-industrialization and economic restructuring during the 1980s and 1990s. It also considers the specificity of popular music culture and the ways in which it influences city life and informs the way that the city is thought about, valued and experienced.
Published 2007; ISBN 978-0-7546-3242-9
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Cities of Ideas: Civil Society and Urban Governance in Britain 1800–2000: Essays in Honour of David Reeder
Edited by Robert Colls and Richard Rodger
Cities of Ideas: Civil Society and Urban Governance in Britain 1800-2000 addresses the changing nature of individualism and public service in the 19th and 20th centuries, and consists of a collection of essays authored by senior figures in economic, social, cultural and educational history.
Published 2004; ISBN 978-0-7546-0650-5
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Suburbanizing the Masses: Public Transport and Urban Development in Historical Perspective
Edited by Colin Divall and Winstan Bond
A collection of essays looking at the role of mass transit in shaping the urban environment. The strength of this volume lies in its wide ranging geographical scope, which covers not only Western Europe, but also North America, Japan, Sweden and Poland.Suburbanizing the Masses examines how collective forms of transport have contributed to the spatial and social evolution of towns and cities in various countries since the mid nineteenth century.
Published 2003; ISBN 978-0-7546-0775-5
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Self-Help and Civic Culture: Citizenship in Victorian Birmingham
Anne B. Rodrick
Focusing on the city of Birmingham, and drawing on both local and national sources, Self Help and Civic Culture explores the changing nature of self improvement and citizenship in Victorian Britain. By approaching the concept of citizenship from the perspective of provincial identity and its relationship to wider ideas of 'Englishness' and 'Britishness', a distinct ideal of citizenship is discovered.By drawing together various issues of citizenship, self-improvement, class and political power, Self Help and Civic Culture re-examines the on-going attempts to determine who could claim the full rights, duties, privileges and responsibilities of the larger social body, thus illuminating the relationship between culture and power in nineteenth-century England.
Published 2004; ISBN 978-0-7546-3307-5
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Women and Urban Life in Eighteenth-Century England: 'On the Town'
Edited by Rosemary Sweet and Penelope Lane
Focusing on the participation of middling women in urban life, Women and Urban Life in Eighteenth-Century England focuses on the relationship between urban change and shifts in the pattern of gender relations in the 18th century – a period of rapid transformations in English history. It explores to what extent urban change accelerated a redefinition of gender relations; the connections between urban growth, changing definitions of citizenship, and the emergence of the male gendered political subject; the role of women in a literate, consumer and industrializing society; women's contribution to its development, and how that in turn inflected contemporary conceptualizations of gender.
Published 2003; ISBN 978-0-7546-0730-4
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European cities
The Insula of the Menander at Pompeii
Penelope M. Allison
Published 2007; ISBN 978-0-19-926312-7
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Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum, Volume V, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford. Part IX, Bosporus-Aeolis
Edited by Richard Ashton and Stanley Ireland
Published 2007; ISBN 978-0-19-726416-4
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Food and the City in Europe since 1800
Edited by Peter J. Atkins, Peter Lummel and Derek J. Oddy
This fascinating volume examines the impact that rapid urbanization has had upon diets and food systems throughout Western Europe over the past two centuries. Bringing together studies from across the continent, it stresses the fundamental links between key changes in European social history and food systems, food cultures and food politics.
Published 2007; ISBN 978-0-7546-4989-2
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Spectacular Power in the Greek and Roman City
Andrew Bell
Published 2006; ISBN 978-0-19-929827-3
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Classical Olbia and the Scythian World
Edited by David Braund and S D Kryzhitskiy
Published 2007; ISBN 978-0-19-726404-1
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The Market and the City: Square, Street and Architecture in Early Modern Europe
Donatella Calabi
The early modern period witnessed the rise of a new and powerful merchant class across Europe. The Market and the City takes a comparative approach to the effect merchants and traders had on the urban history of market places – streets, squares and specific buildings – in some of the great commercial European cities between the 15th and 17th centuries. It looks at how the transformations of designated commercial areas were important enough to modify relationships throughout the entire urban context. Market places tend to be very ancient, continuing to function for centuries on the same location; but between the middle of the 14th and the first decades of the 17th, their structures began to change as new regulations and patterns of manufacture, distribution and consumption began to install a new uniformity and geometry on the market place. During the period covered by this study, most major European cities undertook the rebuilding of entire zones, constructing new buildings, demolishing existing structures and embellishing others.
Published 2004; ISBN 978-0-7546-0893-6
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A History of Rome Down to the Age of Constantine (3rd edition)
M. Cary & H.H. Scullard
Published 1980; ISBN 9780333278307
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The European City and Green Space: London, Stockholm, Helsinki and St Petersburg, 1850-2000
Edited by Peter Clark
This book explores the multiplicity of green space developments in the modern city and the many influences shaping their evolution. Focusing on four northern European metropoles: London, Stockholm, Helsinki and St Petersburg, it examines how each has responded to the challenges and problems presented by green space, and what lessons can be drawn from the differing approaches taken.
Published 2006; ISBN 978-0-7546-5429-2
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Marriage, Manners and Mobility in Early Modern Venice
Alexander Cowan
Throughout history, marriage has been used as a method of creating and strengthening bonds between society's ruling elites. Nowhere is this more apparent than in early modern Venice, where members of the urban patrician class looked to marital alliances to help maintain their position and social distinction in a fluid society. This book explores these social relationships and the ways in which they were mediated through the links created by marriage. It looks at the changing composition of the Venetian ruling elite during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, examining the complex relationship between the patrician class and the rest of society. Drawing heavily on the records of the Avogaria di Comun, which had the task of examining the social backgrounds and moral reputations of women from outside the patriciate who wished to marry patricians, this study provides a fascinating reconstruction of Venetian society as it was seen by individuals at every level.
Published 2007; ISBN 978-0-7546-5728-6
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Property, Tenancy and Urban Growth in Stockholm and Berlin, 1860-1920
Håkan Forsell
Exploring the social and political meanings attributed to property – specifically home ownership – this study looks at how these changed during the course of the modern city building process between 1860 and 1920. Focussing on two northern European capital cities, Berlin and Stockholm, the study contributes to the understanding of various factors that shaped the dynamic urban growth that characterized this period.
Published 2006; ISBN 978-0-7546-5507-7
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Polis: An Introduction to the Ancient Greek City-State
Mogens Herman Hansen
Published 2006; ISBN 978-0-19-920850-0
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Urban Life in the Middle Ages 100-1450
Keith Lilley
Published 2001; ISBN 9780333712498
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Siena, Constructing the Renaissance City
Fabrizio Nevola
Published 2007; ISBN 9780300126785
Yale University Press
Urban Europe 1100-1700
David Nicholas
Published 2003; ISBN 9780333949832
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War, Food, and Politics in Early Hellenistic Athens
G. J. Oliver
Published 2007; ISBN 978-0-19-928350-7
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Mussolini's Rome: Rebuilding the Eternal City
Borden Painter
Published 2008; ISBN 9781403980021
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Landscapes and Cities: Rural Settlement and Civic Transformation in Early Imperial Italy
John R. Patterson
Published 2006; ISBN 978-0-19-814088-7
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Young People and the European City: Age Relations in Nottingham and Saint-Etienne, 1890-1940
David M. Pomfret
As European society became more urbanised in the nineteenth century and new approaches to city life were developed, educated observers began to articulate fears about the impact cities had on the young. This book offers a new approach to this impact, and the wider history of young people in European cities. Comparing a broad age range in two different urban contexts, Nottingham and Saint-Etienne, it not only provides a close reading of local events to substantiate or critique generalisations commonly made about the urban young but also uses this material to generate wider insights into the relationship between cities and the rising generation in their national and European contexts.
Published 2004; ISBN 978-0-7546-0930-8
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The Transition to Late Antiquity, on the Danube and Beyond
Andrew Poulter
Published 2007; ISBN 978-0-19-726402-7
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Paris-Edinburgh: Cultural Connections in the Belle Epoque
Siân Reynolds
By the end of the nineteenth century Paris was widely acknowledged as the cultural capital of the world; Edinburgh by contrast may still be thought of as a rather staid city of lawyers and Presbyterian ministers, academics and doctors. Yet despite this apparent cultural opposition, Professor Reynolds argues that in fact both cities shared a number of similar concerns and ideals that were fostered and developed by growing links and international travel. This book seeks not to treat Paris-Edinburgh links in isolation, or to exaggerate them, but to use them to provide a fresh perspective on the internationalism of the Belle Epoque.
Published 2007; ISBN 978-0-7546-3464-5
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European Cities, Youth and the Public Sphere in the Twentieth Century
Edited by Axel Schildt and Detlef Siegfried
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 the young. The case studies include Berlin, Copenhagen, Hamburg, Stockholm, Nottingham, St Etienne, Paris, London, Vienna and Budapest.
Published 2005; ISBN 978-0-7546-5173-4
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Resources of the City: Contributions to an Environmental History of Modern Europe
Edited by Dieter Schott, Bill Luckin and Geneviève Massard-Guilbaud
This volume explores many of the key environmental concerns and issues that are essential to understanding the problems faced by cities in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Addressing a variety of issues, such as clean water supply, the provision/retention of green space, and noise pollution, that faced European and North American cities, the essays in this volume highlight the common responses as well as the differences that characterized the reactions to these trans-national concerns.
Published 2005; ISBN 978-0-7546-5081-2
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The Justice of Venice
James E. Shaw
Published 2006; ISBN 978-0-19-726377-8
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Paris Africain: Rhythms of the African Diaspora
James A. Winders
Published 2007; ISBN 9781403960047
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Non-European cities
A History of Israel
Ahron Bregman
Published 2002; ISBN 9780333676325
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The History of Havana
Dick Cluster & Rafael Hernandez
Published 2006; ISBN 9781403971074
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Havana: Autobiography of a City
Alfredo Estrada
Published 2007; ISBN 9781403975096
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Urbanization and the Pacific World, 1500–1900
Edited by Lionel Frost
Between 1500 and 1900 there was a constant growth in the numbers of large cities and networks of smaller towns throughout the Pacific world in which traders and primary producers did business. The essays in Urbanization and the Pacific World explore the increasingly complex economic relationships that connected cities in and around the Pacific world to each other, and pay particular attention to the impact that growing cities had on the economies of their hinterlands. The volume also contains articles that examine the problems that city growth created and the ways in which people were able to cope with them. Along with the new introduction, the essays cover all of the regions of the Pacific world in which city growth took place, and will allow the reader to consider a wide range of common and contrasting urban experiences.
Published 2005; ISBN 978-0-7546-5075-1
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Cities of Culture: Staging International Festivals and the Urban Agenda, 1851-2000
John R. Gold and Margaret M. Gold
The city is a natural setting for spectacle and entertainment. Since Antiquity, cities have staged events that have illuminated the life of their inhabitants and drawn in visitors. In recent years, however, their role as the setting for festivals and fairs has been dramatically enhanced as city managers have recognised the potential that the larger international festivals have for fostering economic, social and cultural development. Cities of Culture examines the growth of this role in Western cities over the last 150 years. Adopting a lively comparative perspective, it highlights the development of three different forms of staged cultural events – international expositions, the Summer Olympics and the European Cities of Culture programme. With its extensive use of case studies and illuminating examples, it provides insight into the material and symbolic significance of festivals in urban affairs.
Published 2004; ISBN 978-1-84014-285-3
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Creating Central Park
Morrison H. Heckscher
Published 2007; ISBN 9780300136692
Yale University Press
The Making of an Indian Metropolis: Colonial Governance and Public Culture in Bombay, 1890-1920
Prashant Kidambi
This book investigates the social history of colonial Bombay in the late Victorian and Edwardian eras. Drawing together strands that have hitherto been treated separately, and based on a wide range of untapped archival sources, this book offers the first systematic analytical account of historical change in a modernizing colonial city. In highlighting the colonial experience of historical processes that have attracted considerable attention in recent scholarship, it restores the much neglected global dimension to a comparative discussion of these themes. At the same time the volume demonstrates the manner in which the globalizing forces unleashed by European imperialism were appropriated and transformed in the colonial context.
Published 2007; ISBN 978-0-7546-5612-8
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Beijing: From Imperial Capital to Olympic City
Lillian M. Li, Alison Dray-Novey and Haili Kong
Published 2007; ISBN 9781403964731
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Hyderabad
Narendra Luther
Published 2006; ISBN 978-0-19-568434-6
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Studies on the History and Topography of Byzantine Constantinople
Paul Magdalino
Constantinople originated in 330 AD as the last great urban foundation of the ancient world. When it was sacked by the Fourth Crusade in 1204 it was the greatest city of the European Middle Ages. The studies in the present volume examine aspects of this long and complex history as reflected in the topography, monuments, self-image and political status of medieval Constantinople. They include a revised English version of a monograph published in French ten years ago, nine reprinted articles, and two published here for the first time
Published 2007; ISBN 978-0-86078-999-4
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Josep Lluis Sert: The Architect of Urban Design, 1953–1969
Eric Mumford
Published 2008; ISBN 9780300120653
Yale University Press
Another City: Urban Life and Urban Spaces in the New American Republic
Dell Upton
Published 2008; ISBN 9780300124880
Yale University Press
General urban history
The Hybrid Church in the City: Third Space Thinking
Christopher Richard Baker
This book argues that theology and the church need to engage more seriously with post-modern reality and thought if points of connection are going to be created. Drawing on case studies from Europe and the USA, this book examines examples of Third Space methodologies to ask questions about hybrid identities and methods churches might adopt to effectively connect with post-modern cities and civil society.
Published 2007; ISBN 978-0-7546-5513-8
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Boardwalk of Dreams
Simon Bryant
Published 2006; ISBN 978-0-19-530809-9
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Rebels Rising
Benjamin L. Carp
Published 2007; ISBN 978-0-19-530402-2
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The City and the Senses: Urban Culture Since 1500
Edited by Alexander Cowan and Jill Steward
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 smell. By spanning pre-industrial and modern cities it enables the reader to establish major contrasts and continuities in what is still an evolving urban experience.
Published 2007; ISBN 978-0-7546-0514-0
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Municipal Services and Employees in the Modern City: New Historic Approaches
Edited by Michèle Dagenais, Irene Maver and Pierre-Yves Saunier
Municipal Services and Employees in the Modern City considers the roles played by local institutions and particular processes that shaped the urban fabric. It rediscovers from models and maps the constituent dynamics of cities since the beginning of the nineteenth century, and demonstrates how patterns evolved in the way services and locations were organized; how urban transformation was underpinned by structural development, and how the municipal workforce became an integral part of the agencies of change. Municipal Services and Employees in the Modern City suggests that municipal experiences are central to the development of urban studies. Its focus of analysis ranges across Europe and the Americas from high-ranking bureaucrats to firefighters, engineers to accountants, and town clerks to public servants.
Published 2003; ISBN 978-0-7546-0333-7
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The Ceremonial City
Iain Fenlon
Published 2007; ISBN 9780300119374
Yale University Press
The Jewel House
Deborah E. Harkness
Published 2007; ISBN 9780300111965
Yale University Press
The Politics of Gender, Community, and Modernity
Nita Kumar
Published 2006; ISBN 978-0-19-568273-1
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Feeding the Democracy
Alfonso Moreno
Published 2007; ISBN 978-0-19-922840-9
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Testimonies of the City: Identity, Community and Change in a Contemporary Urban World
Edited by Richard Rodger and Joanna Herbert
Oral testimony is one of the most valuable but challenging sources for the study of modern history, providing access to knowledge and experience unavailable to historians of earlier periods. In this groundbreaking collection, oral testimonies are used to explore themes relating to the construction of urban memories in European cities during the twentieth century.By using the full range of opportunities offered by oral history, as well as fully considering the related methodological issues of interpretation, this volume provides a fascinating insight into one of the least explored areas of urban history. As well as adding to our understanding of the European urban experience, it highlights the potential of this intersection of oral and urban history.
Published 2007; ISBN 978-0-7546-5560-2
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Who Ran the Cities?: City Elites and Urban Power Structures in Europe and North America, 1750-1940
Edited by Ralf Roth and Robert Beachy
This volume furthers our understanding of who actually ran cities in the eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and develops greater understanding of the relationship between elite and "power" in cities. To develop answers, two fields of research, which have often remained separate, have been brought together: the economic, social and cultural history of elite and the political history of power resources and decision-making. By looking at specific case studies through the lens of these issues, the volume will encourage the reader to challenge common perceptions of a monolithic elite and to replace them with a more sophisticated view of urban power as an interplay between various economic, social, political and cultural elite groups.
Published 2007; ISBN 978-0-7546-5153-6
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Architect and Engineer: A Study in Sibling Rivalry
Andrew Saint
Published 2007; ISBN 9780300124439
Yale University Press
Divided Cities
Ian Talbot
Published 2007; ISBN 978-0-19-547226-4
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