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The Oxford Handbook of Cities in World History
Edited by Peter Clark
912 pages
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19 maps and 62 black and white images
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246x171mm
978-0-19-958953-1
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Hardback
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14 February 2013
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- Forty four essays from an international team of leading scholars
- This is the first detailed comparative study of cities in world history from origins to the present
- Covers key topics, not just in urban history and urban studies, but of general historical and social science relevance
- Covers ancient, medieval, early modern, and modern and contemporary periods
- Demonstrates cities crucial for understanding global history
In 2008 for the first time the majority of the planet's inhabitants lived in cities and towns. Becoming globally urban has been one of mankind's greatest collective achievements over time and raises many questions. How did global city systems evolve and interact in the past? How have historic urban patterns impacted on those of the contemporary world? And what were the key drivers in the roller-coaster of urban change over the millennia - market forces such as trade and industry? rulers and governments? competition and collaboration between cities? or the urban environment and demographic forces? This pioneering comparative work by fifty leading scholars
drawn from a range of disciplines offers the first detailed comparative study of urban development from ancient times to the present day.
The Handbook explores not only the main trends in the growth of cities and towns across the world - in Asia and the Middle East, Europe, Africa, and the Americas - and the different types of cities from great metropolitan centres to suburbs, colonial cities, and market towns, but also many of the essential themes in the making and remaking of the urban world: the role of power, economic development, migration, social inequality, environmental challenge and the urban response, religion and representation, cinema, and urban creativity. Split into three parts covering Ancient cities, the medieval and early modern period, and the
modern and contemporary era, it begins with an introduction by the editor identifying the importance and challenges of research on cities in world history as well as the crucial outlines of urban development since the earliest cities in ancient Mesopotamia to the present.Readership: Academics, students, and researchers interested in urban and global history
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Edited by Peter Clark, Emeritus Professor of European Urban History, Helsinki University; Visiting Professor, University of Leicester Peter Clark was until recently Professor of European Urban History at the University of Helsinki. Educated at Oxford he was the first director (1985) of the Centre for Urban History at the University of Leicester where he remains Visiting Professor. In 1989 he helped found the European Association for Urban History and he has published or edited over 20 books on urban, social, cultural and environmental history. In 2010 he received an honorary degree from Stockholm University.
Contributors:
Carl Abbott, Portland State University in Oregon
Mohammad al-Asad, the Center for the Study of the Built Environment (CSBE) in Amman, Jordan
J. A. Baird, Birkbeck College, University of London
Wim Blockmans has been a history professor at Rotterdam and Leiden Universities, and Rector of the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study
Bruno Blondé, the University of Antwerp
Leonard Blussé, Leiden University
Marc Boone, Ghent university
Maarten Bosker, the Erasmus University Rotterdam
Ebru Boyar, Middle East Technical University, Ankara
Eltjo Buringh, Utrecht University
Peter Burke, Emmanuel College, Cambridge
Xiangming Chen, Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut and Fudan University in Shanghai, China
Peter Clark, Emeritus Professor, University of Helsinki and Visiting Professor, Leicester University
Penelope J. Corfield, Royal Holloway, London University
Howard Dick, the University of Melbourne and the University of Newcastle (NSW)
Felipe Fernández-Armesto, Notre Dame University
Henry Fitts graduated from Trinity College in 2012
Bill Freund, the University of KwaZulu-Natal
Alan Gilbert, University College London
Marjolein 't Hart, the University of Amsterdam
Carola Hein, Bryn Mawr College, Pennsylvania
Marjatta Hietala,
formerly of the University of Tampere
Ho-fung Hung, the Johns Hopkins University
Jussi S. Jauhiainen, the University of Turku and the University of Tartu
Prashant Kidambi, University of Leicester
Ray Laurence, University of Kent at Canterbury
Andrew Lees, The State University of New Jersey
Lynn Hollen Lees, the University of Pennsylvania
Luuk de Ligt, the University of Leiden
Mario Liverani, the University of Rome, La Sapienza
Leo Lucassen, Leiden University
David Mattingly, the University of Leicester
Kevin McDonald, the UCL Institute of Archaeology
James L. McClain, Brown University
Augusta McMahon, the University of Cambridge
Martin V. Melosi, the University of Houston, Houston, Texas
Thomas R. Metcalf, the University of California, Berkeley
Robin Osborne, the University of Cambridge
Cameron Petrie, the University of Cambridge
Peter J. Rimmer, the Australian National University
William T. Rowe, the Johns Hopkins University
Hannu Salmi, the University of Turku
Kristin Stapleton, the University at Buffalo, State University of New York
Nancy S. Steinhardt, the University of Pennsylvania
David Stone studies the archaeology and history of North Africa
Dominique Valérian, the Université Lumière-Lyon
Ilja Van Damme, the Centre for Urban History
Jan Luiten Van Zanden, the
University of Utrecht
Mercedes Volait, the Institut national d'histoire de l'art, Paris
Paul Waley, the University of Leeds
Andrew Wallace-Hadrill, Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge
Hilde de Weerdt, Pembroke College, the University of Oxford
Anne Winter, the Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Shaohua Zhan, the Johns Hopkins University
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1: Peter Clark: Introduction
Part I: Early Cities
2: Augusta McMahon: Mesopotamia
3: Robin Osborne and Andrew Wallace-Hadrill: Cities of the Ancient Mediterranean
4: David B. Mattingly and Kevin C.MacDonald: Africa
5: Cameron A. Petrie: South Asia
6: N. Steinhardt: China
7: David L. Stone: Economy
8: Luuk de Ligt: Population and Migration
9: Mario Liverani: Power and Citizenship
10: J.A. Baird: Religion and Ritual
11: Ray Laurence: Planning and Environment
Part II: Pre-Modern Cities
12: Marc Boone: Medieval Europe
13: B. Blondé and Ilja Van Damme: Early Modern Europe: 1500-1800
14: Dominique Valérian: Middle East: 7th-15th Centuries
15: Ebru Boyar: The Ottoman City
16: Hilde de Weerdt: China: 600-1300
17: William T. Rowe: China: 1300-1900
18: James McClain: Japan's Pre-modern Urbanism
19: Leonard Blussé: Port Cities of South East Asia: 1400-1800
20: Felipe Fernández-Armesto: Latin America
21: Bas van Bavel, Maarten Bosker Eltjo Buringh, and Jan Luiten van Zanden: Economy
22: Anne Winter: Population and Migration: European and Chinese Experiences Compared
23: Wim Blockmans and Marjolein 't Hart: Power
24: Peter Burke: Culture: Representations
Part III: Modern and Contemporary Cities
25: Andrew Lees and Lynn Hollen Lees: Europe: 1800-2000
26: Alan Gilbert: Latin America
27: Carl Abbott: North America
28: Kristin Stapleton: China: 1900 to the Present
29: Paul Waley: Japan
30: Prashant Kidambi: South Asia
31: Howard Dick and Peter J. Rimmer: South East Asia and Australia
32: Mercedes Volait and Mohammad Al-Asad: Middle East
33: Bill Freund: Africa: 1000-2010
34: Ho-fung Hung and Shaohua Zhan: Industrialization and the City: East and West
35: Leo Lucassen: Population and Migration
36: Alan Gilbert: Poverty, Inequality, and Social Segregation
37: Martin V. Melosi: The Urban Environment
38: Marjatta Hietala and Peter Clark: Creative Cities
39: Hannu Salmi: Cinema and the City
40: Thomas R. Metcalf: Colonial Cities
41: Xiangming Chen and Henry Fitts: Contemporary Metropolitan Cities
42: Jussi S. Jauhiainen: Suburbs
43: Carola Hein: Port Cities
44: Penelope J. Corfield: Conclusion: Cities in Time
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