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Female Agency in the Urban Economy
This innovative new book is overtly and explicitly about female agency in eighteenth-century European towns. However, it positions female activity and decisions unequivocally in an urban world of institutions, laws, regulations, customs and ideologies. Gender politics complicated and shaped the day-to-day experiences of working women. Town rules and customs, as well as police and guilds' regulations, affected women's participation in the urban economy: most of the time, the formally recognized and legally accepted power of women - which is an essential component of female agency - was very limited. Yet these chapters draw attention to how women navigated these gendered terrains. As the book demonstrates, \"exclusion\" is too strong a word for the realities and pragmatism of women's everyday lives. Frequently guild and corporate regulations were more about situating women and regulating their activities, rather than preventing them from operating in the urban economy. Similarly corporate structures, which were under stress, found flexible strategies to incorporate women who through their own initiative and activities put pressure on the systems. Women could benefit from the contradictions between moral and social unwritten norms and economic regulations, and could take advantage of the tolerance or complicity of urban authorities towards illicit practices. Women with a grasp of their rights and privileges could defend themselves and exploit legal systems with its loopholes and contradictions to achieve economic independence and power.
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Streetlife
A completely new look at the history of Europe over the last one hundred years, showing how the fabric of everyday life and the major political upheavals of the twentieth century were fundamentally shaped by the culture and environment of the city.
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Cultural History of Early Modern European Streets
Six essays explore the evolving cultural and material life of the early modern European street, a contested place of shaded meanings where public met private space, and state and society vied for control of urban form.
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Resources of the City
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 much interdisciplinary work. Given the environmental problems facing the modern world it is perhaps unsurprising that historians, geographers, political, natural and social scientists should increasingly look at the environmental problems faced by previous generations, and how they were regarded and responded to. This volume reflects this growing concern, and reflects many of the key concerns and issues that are essential to our understanding of the problems faced by cities in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Addressing a variety of environmental 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 characterised the reactions to these trans-national concerns.
Contents: Resources of the City: towards a European urban environmental history, Dieter Schott; A metabolic approach to the city: 19th and 20th century Paris, Sabine Barles; Urban horses and Changing City-Hinterland Relationships in the United States, Joel A. Tarr and Clay McShane; 'Returning to nature': vacation and life style in the Montréal region, Michèle Dagenais; Citizens in Pursuit of Nature: Gardens, Allotments and Private Space in European cities, 1850-2000, Helen Meller; Sustainable Naples: the Disappearance of Nature as a Resource, Gabriella Corona; The struggle for urban space: Nantes and Clermont-Ferrand, 1830-1930, Geneviève Massard-Guilbaud; Sanitate Crescamus: Water Supply, Sewage Disposal and Environmental Values in a Victorian suburb, Nicholas Goddard; Resource Management and Environmental Transformations. Water Incorporation at the Time of Industrialization: Milan, 1880-1940, Simone Neri Serneri; Constructing Urban Infrastructure for Multiple Resource Management: Sewerage Systems in the Industrialization of the Rhineland, Germany, Ulrich Koppitz; Towards the Socialist Sanitary City: Urban Water Problems in East German new towns, 1945-70, Christoph Bernhardt; Experts and water quality in Paris in 1870, Laurence Lestel; Noise Abatement and the Search for Quiet Space in the Modern City, Michael Toyka-Seid; Environmental Justice, History and the City: The United States and Britain, 1970-2000, Bill Luckin; 'In Stadt und Land': Differences and Convergences between Urban and Local Environmentalism in West Germany, 1950-80, Jens Ivo Engels; Path Dependence and Urban History: Is a Marriage Possible?, Martin V. Melosi; Index.
Dieter Schott is a Professor at the History Department of Darmstadt University of Technology, Germany. Bill Luckin is a Research Professor in Urban History at Bolton Institute, UK. Dr Geneviève Massard-Guilbaud works at the Université de Clermont-Ferrand, France.
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European Cities and Towns
Examines and explains the waves of urbanization across Europe from the fall of the Roman empire to the dawn of the 21st century, covering the whole of Europe, north and south, east and west, and looking at urban trends, the urban economy, social developments, cultural life, and governance.
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