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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Leif Jerram (Lecturer in European and Urban History, University of Manchester)Publisher: Oxford University Press Imprint: Oxford University Press Dimensions: Width: 13.50cm , Height: 2.60cm , Length: 21.40cm Weight: 0.586kg ISBN: 9780199671168ISBN 10: 0199671168 Pages: 488 Publication Date: 18 April 2013 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order  Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of ContentsIntroduction: How Cities Made Modern Europe 1: Revolution in the Streets 2: Streetwalkers 3: The Cultured Metropolis 4: Sex and the City 5: Building Utopia: How Cities Shaped our Lives and our Minds Epilogue: The Way We Live Now? Further Reading IndexReviewsStreetlife is richly researched and wonderfully detailed. PD Smith, The Guardian Review from previous edition Brilliant and provocative, Leif Jerram's Streetlife is a compelling history of Europe's cities in the twentieth century. More than this, it makes a powerful case for the centrality of place in modern experience; 'where' things happen, Jerram argues, matters every bit as much as 'what' and 'why'. With wit and a superb eye for detail he enables us to sense what it was like to be there, to inhabit the streets, dance-halls and homes of cities like Berlin, Moscow and Manchester. This is urban history for the twenty-first century - passionate, political and a pleasure to read. Simon Gunn, Centre for Urban History, University of Leicester An unromanticized. sweeping and informed cultural history of European histories in the long twentieth century...Streetlife is a remarkable work of synthesis...Jerram condenses a prodigious amount of historicl scholarship with impressive economy and judiciousness. Anson Rabinbach, Times Literary Supplement A highly impressive read. The clever navigation between history writ large and the anecdotal...makes this book not only academically engaging but also an enjoyable read. Streetlife is an important work for anyone interested in urban history. Reviews in History An enjoyably idiosyncratic and provocative journey Financial Times ` Streetlife is richly researched and wonderfully detailed.' PD Smith, The Guardian `Review from previous edition Brilliant and provocative, Leif Jerram's Streetlife is a compelling history of Europe's cities in the twentieth century. More than this, it makes a powerful case for the centrality of place in modern experience; 'where' things happen, Jerram argues, matters every bit as much as 'what' and 'why'. With wit and a superb eye for detail he enables us to sense what it was like to be there, to inhabit the streets, dance-halls and homes of cities like Berlin, Moscow and Manchester. This is urban history for the twenty-first century - passionate, political and a pleasure to read. ' Simon Gunn, Centre for Urban History, University of Leicester `An unromanticized. sweeping and informed cultural history of European histories in the long twentieth century...Streetlife is a remarkable work of synthesis...Jerram condenses a prodigious amount of historicl scholarship with impressive economy and judiciousness.' Anson Rabinbach, Times Literary Supplement `A highly impressive read. The clever navigation between history writ large and the anecdotal...makes this book not only academically engaging but also an enjoyable read. Streetlife is an important work for anyone interested in urban history.' Reviews in History `An enjoyably idiosyncratic and provocative journey' Financial Times Author InformationLeif Jerram was born in Woolwich in south-east London in 1971, and lived there until he went to study history at university. After having lived in San Diego, Bremen, Munich and Paris, he settled in Manchester to do his PhD - the first industrial city. There he has remained, barring a brief stint as a fellow at Selwyn College, Cambridge. He is currently a lecturer in urban history in the School of Arts at Manchester University, as well as being involved in community politics and activism. He has published widely in the field of cultural and urban history, including most recently Germany's Other Modernity: Munich and the Making of Metropolis, 1895-1930 (2007). Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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