City Limits

Figures and Tables; Acknowledgment Introduction / Glenn Clark, Judith Owens, and Greg T. Smith PART ONE PLACING THE CITY Preface / Peter Lake; 1 What Made the Eurasian City Work? Urban Political Cultures in Early Modern Europe and Asia / Christopher Friedrichs; 2 Global Yokels: Vernacular Manuscript Chronicles and Urban Identity in Early Modern Germany / Johannes C. Wolfart; 3 Renaissance Venice as a Musical Model for Copenhagen / Susan Lewis Hammond; 4 Walking the City Limits: The Performance of Authority and Identity in Mary Tudor's Norwich / Mary A. Blackstone; 5 Rational Luxuries and Civilized Pleasures: Nationalizing Elite Parisian Values, 1848-49 / Melanie A. Bailey; 6 The "Divine Little City" and the "Terrible Town": Henry James on Florence and New York / Robin Hoople PART TWO GENDER, MOBILITY, AND THE CITY Preface / Arlene Young; 7 Exploring Edinburgh: Urban Tourism in Late Eighteenth-Century Britain / Pam Perkins; 8 Clearing the Streets: Blindness and Begging in Henry Mayhew's London Labour and the London Poor / Vanessa Warne; 9 A Contested City: Gwen John, Suzanne Valadon, and Women Artists in Fin-de-Siecle Paris / Julie Johnson PART THREE REDRESSING BOUNDARIES Preface / Bernard Dov Cooperman; 10 Alls wie mann inn krieg pflegt zue thuen: Music and Catholic Processions in Counter-Reformation Augsburg / Alexander J. Fisher; 11 "Madness in a Magnificent Building": Gentile Responses to Jewish Synagogues in Amsterdam, 1670-1730 / Saskia Coenen Snyder; 12 Between History and Hope: The Urban Centre of William Blake and William Wordsworth / Jon Saklofske; 13 The Humours of Sailortown: Atlantic History Meets Subculture Theory / Isaac Land Postscript; Bibliography; Contributors