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OverviewIn urban life, streets are elemental, but urban history seldom places them centre stage. It tends to view them as mere backdrops for events or social relations, or to study them as material constructions, the fruit of urban planning, but largely vacant of inhabitants. Examining people and streets in tandem, the contributors to this volume strive towards more integrated urban history. They discuss the social and political processes of early modern street life, and the discursive play in which streets figured. Six chapters, based in Sweden-Finland, England, Portugal, Italy, and Transylvania, discuss the subtle interplay of the material and immaterial, public and private, planned order and versatility, spontaneous invention, control and resistance - all matters central to how streets worked. Contributors are Emese Balint, Maria Helena Barreiros, Elizabeth S. Cohen, Thomas V. Cohen, Alexander Cowan, Anu Korhonen, Riitta Laitinen, and Dag Lindstroem. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Riitta Laitinen , Thomas CohenPublisher: Brill Imprint: Brill Dimensions: Width: 15.50cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 23.50cm Weight: 0.446kg ISBN: 9789004172517ISBN 10: 9004172513 Pages: 178 Publication Date: 16 February 2009 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Out of stock  The supplier is temporarily out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you on backorder and shipped when it becomes available. Table of ContentsCultural History of Early Modern Streets-An Introduction, Riitta Laitinen with Thomas Cohen 1. Urban Landscapes: Houses, Streets and Squares of 18th Century Lisbon, Maria Helena Barreiros 2. Mechanisms of the Hue and Cry in Kolozsvar in the Second Half of the Sixteenth Century, Emese Balint 3. Urban Order and Street Regulation in Seventeenth-Century Sweden, Riitta Laitinen & Dag Lindstroem 4. To Pray, To Work, To Hear, To Speak: Women in Roman Streets c. 1600, Elizabeth S. Cohen 5. Gossip and Street Culture in Early Modern Venice, Alexander Cowan 6. To See and To Be Seen: Beauty in the Early Modern London Street, Anu Korhonen IndexReviewsWiith this book, the authors fill the urban spaces of early modern cities with their inhabitants, their social relations, and their cultural practices [...] the authors convincingly show that not all order came from the top down: the emphasis on the agency of the individuals in constructing and reacting to this order is one of the most valuable qualities of this book. Eleonora Canepari, Canadian Journal of History / Annales canadiennes d'histoire vol. 45 (Winter) 2010, pp. 605-607. Each of these chapters contributes something to our knowledge of streets and street life in early modern Europe. We are still a long way from an understanding of the role of streets in early modern cities that will combine the urbanist and social perspectives into a unified whole. Perhaps some future historian will undertake that task. When he or she does, this collection of essays--and other studies which essays like these are likely to inspire--will be among the indispensable building blocks of that future work. Christopher R. Friedrichs (University of British Columbia) Published on H-Urban (January, 2010) Author InformationRiitta Laitinen, Ph.D. (2000) in Cultural History, University of Turku, Finland, is a Senior Lecturer of Cultural History. She has published, largely in Finnish, on the cultural history of early modern Finnish as well as Navajo Indian space and place. Thomas V. Cohen, Ph.D. (1974) in History, Harvard University, is Professor of History at York University in Toronto. He writes on the cultural anthropology of Renaissance Italy. See, recently, Love and Death in Renaissance Italy (University of Chicago, 2004). Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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