Andrew Lees (New Jersey Rutgers University), Lynn Hollen Lees (University of Pennsylvania)

Cities and the Making of Modern Europe, 1750-1914

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Produktbeschreibung

This book is a major survey of urbanization and the making of modern Europe from the mid-eighteenth century to the First World War. It explores the causes, course and consequences of the urban explosion Europe experienced during these years, linking urban growth to industrialization, migration, and the growth of colonial empires.

Produktdetails

• New Approaches to European History
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 316
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. August 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 630g
• ISBN-13: 9780521839365
• ISBN-10: 052183936X
• Artikelnr.: 22782786

Autorenporträt

Andrew Lees is Professor of History at the Camden Campus of Rutgers University. He is the author of Cities Perceived: Urban Society in European and American Thought, 1820¿1940 (1985) and Cities, Sin and Social Reform in Imperial Germany (2002).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction; Part I. 1750
1850, An Era of Disruption: 1. Urban worlds around the middle of the eighteenth century; 2. Industrial urbanization; 3. Varieties of urban protest; 4. Pursuits of urban improvement; Part II. 1850
1914, An Era of Reconstruction: 5. The challenge of the big cities; 6. Toward the social city; 7. Urban cultures; 8. Imperial and colonial cities; Conclusion; Appendix A. The growth of individual cities in Europe, 1750
1910; Appendix B. General works about individual cities in Europe.