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 Fortunes: Property and Inheritance in the Town, 1700–1900
1st Edition
By Jon Stobart, Alastair Owens
October 26, 2016
Property is central to any historical analyses of production, reproduction and consumption. It lies at the heart of discussions of material culture, class relations and the household economy. Recent work has begun to look beyond the acquisition and possession of goods to examine what the disposal,...
Resources of the City: Contributions to an Environmental History of Modern Europe
1st Edition
By Bill Luckin, Dieter Schott
September 22, 2016
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, ...
The Making of an Indian Metropolis: Colonial Governance and Public Culture in Bombay, 1890-1920
1st Edition
By Prashant Kidambi
September 08, 2016
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 metropolis. Drawing together strands that hitherto have been treated in a piecemeal fashion and based on a variety of archival sources, the book offers a ...
Who Ran the Cities?: City Elites and Urban Power Structures in Europe and North America, 1750–1940
1st Edition
Edited
By Robert Beachy, Ralf Roth
September 06, 2016
The question of who actually ran cities in the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries has been increasingly debated in recent years. As well as trying to understand the distribution of political power and the rise of broad political participation, urban historians have questioned how and ...
The Market and the City: Square, Street and Architecture in Early Modern Europe
1st Edition
By Donatella Calabi
September 02, 2016
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 Spain in the south, to the Low Countries and England in the north, men of business and trade came to play an increasingly pivotal role in the culture,...