Historical Urban Studies Series: Historical Urban Studies Series
About the Book Series
Historical Urban Studies presents outstanding new research in urban history, and provides students with much-needed analytical frameworks from which to make comparative historical judgements. Titles in the series explore crime, housing conditions, property values, health, education, discrimination & deviance, as well as the formulation of social policies and urban solutions from across Europe. The series also provides a long historical perspective from which to understand shifts in town hierarchy, and changes in social processes.
Urban Governance: Britain and Beyond Since 1750
1st Edition
By Robert J. Morris, Richard H. Trainor
June 29, 2017
This is a coherent and integrated set of essays around the theme of governance addressing a wide range of questions on the organisation and legitimation of authority. At the heart of the book is a set of topics which have long attracted the attention of urbanists and urban historians all over the ...
Body and City: Histories of Urban Public Health
1st Edition
By Sally Sheard, Helen Power
May 16, 2017
A provocative survey of new research in the history of urban public health, Body and City links the approaches of demographic and medical history with the methodologies of urban history and historical geography. It challenges older methodologies, offering new insights into the significance of ...
City Status in the British Isles, 1830–2002
1st Edition
By John Beckett
May 16, 2017
Based on a wide variety of government and civic records, this book traces the evolution of the changing nature of city status, particularly through the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Beginning with an explanation of how city status first became connected to cathedrals in the medieval period, ...
Corruption in Urban Politics and Society, Britain 1780–1950
1st Edition
Edited
By James R Moore, John Smith
March 06, 2017
Despite much recent interest in the area of urban governance, little work has been done on the changing ethical standards of urban leaderships, 'governing' institutions or the policing of public life. Yet the issue of ethical standards in public life has become a central concern in contemporary ...
Civil Society, Associations and Urban Places: Class, Nation and Culture in Nineteenth-Century Europe
1st Edition
Edited
By Graeme Morton, Boudien de Vries
November 29, 2016
In recent years the concept of 'civil society' has become central to the historian's understanding of class, cultural and political power in the nineteenth-century town and city. Increasingly clubs and voluntary societies have been regarded as an important step in the formation of formal political ...
European Cities, Youth and the Public Sphere in the Twentieth Century
1st Edition
Edited
By Axel Schildt, Detlef Siegfried
November 28, 2016
The late nineteenth century witnessed unprecedented levels of urban growth as migration swelled the population of European cities to new heights. The resulting problems of overcrowding and inadequate civic utilities prompted the governing elites to look for new planning solutions to address the ...
The European City and Green Space: London, Stockholm, Helsinki and St Petersburg, 1850–2000
1st Edition
Edited
By Peter Clark
November 28, 2016
Recent years have seen sustained public debate and controversy over the 'greening' of European cities, associated with the environmental movement, pressures of urban redevelopment, and the promotional strategies of cities competing in a global market. But the European debate over urban green space ...
The City and the Senses: Urban Culture Since 1500
1st Edition
By Jill Steward, Alexander Cowan
November 24, 2016
How do we experience a city in terms of the senses? What are the inter-relations between human experience and behaviour in urban space? This volume examines these questions in the context of European urban culture between the fifteenth and twentieth centuries, exploring the institutions and ...
The Artisan and the European Town, 1500–1900
1st Edition
Edited
By Geoffrey Crossick
November 17, 2016
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 activity, their guilds were often central to the political and legal order of towns, and their culture helped shape civic ritual and the urban order. ...
Segregation – Integration – Assimilation: Religious and Ethnic Groups in the Medieval Towns of Central and Eastern Europe
1st Edition
Edited
By Derek Keene, Balázs Nagy, Katalin Szende
November 15, 2016
There is a widespread concern today with the role and experiences of ethnic and religious minorities, and their potential for conflict and harmony with 'host communities' and with each other, especially in towns. Interest in historical aspects of these phenomena is growing rapidly, not least in ...
Culture and Class in English Public Museums, 1850-1914
1st Edition
By Kate Hill
November 10, 2016
The nineteenth century witnessed a flowering of museums in towns and cities across Britain. As well as providing a focus for collections of artifacts and a place of educational recreation, this work argues that municipal museums had a further, social role. In a situation of rapid urban growth, ...
Cities into Battlefields: Metropolitan Scenarios, Experiences and Commemorations of Total War
1st Edition
Edited
By Stefan Goebel, Derek Keene
October 26, 2016
Cities have always had a key role in warfare, as strategic centres which periodically suffered the horrors of siege and sack. With industrialisation, however, they were drawn ever closer to the front line and to direct and continuous experience of fighting and destruction. 'Cities into Battlefields...