Urban Government And The Rise Of The French City
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Author | : William B. Cohen |
Publisher | : Palgrave Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 338 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780312176952 |
By comparing the response of five major French provincial municipalities - Lyon, Marseilles, Bordeaux, Toulouse and St. Etienne - to the challenges of urbanization, the study is able to elucidate the extent to which city governments were at the forefront in the modernization of urban France.
Author | : Andrew Lees |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 267 |
Release | : 2007-12-13 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 052183936X |
A survey of urbanization and the making of modern Europe from the mid-eighteenth century to the First World War.
Author | : Andrew Lees |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 161 |
Release | : 2015 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0199859523 |
The City: A World History tells the story of the rise and development of urban centers from ancient times to the twenty-first century. It begins with the establishment of the first cities in the Near East in the fourth millennium BCE, and goes on to examine urban growth in the Indus River Valley in India, as well as Egypt and areas that bordered the Mediterranean Sea. Athens, Alexandria, and Rome stand out both politically and culturally. With the fall of the Roman Empire in the West, European cities entered into a long period of waning and deterioration. But elsewhere, great cities-among them, Constantinople, Baghdad, Chang'an, and Tenochtitlán-thrived. In the late Middle Ages and the Early Modern period, urban growth resumed in Europe, giving rise to cities like Florence, Paris, and London. This urban growth also accelerated in parts of the world that came under European control, such as Philadelphia in the nascent United States. As the Industrial Revolution swept through in the nineteenth century, cities grew rapidly. Their expansion resulted in a slew of social problems and political disruptions, but it was accompanied by impressive measures designed to improve urban life. Meanwhile, colonial cities bore the imprint of European imperialism. Finally, the book turns to the years since 1914, guided by a few themes: the impact of war and revolution; urban reconstruction after 1945; migration out of many cities in the United States into growing suburbs; and the explosive growth of "megacities" in the developing world.
Author | : Friedrich Lenger |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 324 |
Release | : 2012-08-17 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9004233636 |
In European Cities in the Modern Era, 1850-1914 Friedrich Lenger analyses the demographic and economic preconditions of European urbanization, compares the extent to which Europe’s cities were characterized by heterogeneity with respect to the social, national and religious composition of its population and asks in which way differences resulting from this heterogeneity were resolved either peacefully or violently. Using this general perspective and extending the scope by including Eastern and Southern Europe the dominant view of Europe’s prewar cities as islands of modernity is challenged and the ubiquity of urban violence established as a central analytical problem.
Author | : Simon Gunn |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 276 |
Release | : 2020-03-31 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 1000062775 |
Urban power and politics are topics of abiding interest for students of the city. This exciting collection of essays explores how Europe’s cities have been governed across the last 500 years. Taken as a whole, it provides a unique historical overview of urban politics in early modern and modern Europe. At the same time, it guides the reader through the variety of ways in which power and governance are currently understood by historians and new directions in the subject. The essays are wide-ranging, covering Europe from Scandinavia to the Mediterranean, Russia to Ireland, between 1500 and the twentieth century. Each chapter employs a specific case-study to illuminate a way of examining how power worked in regard to topics such as women, popular culture or urban elites. A variety of approaches are deployed, including the study of ritual and performance, morality and conduct, governmentality and the state, infrastructure and the individual. Reflecting the state of the art in European urban history, the book is essential reading for anyone interested in the study of urban politics and government. It represents a fresh take on a rich subject and will stimulate a new generation of historical studies of power and the city.
Author | : Jeff Horn |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 329 |
Release | : 2015-02-26 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1107046289 |
This book explores how the institution of privilege and liberty shaped early modern economic development in France between 1650 and 1820.
Author | : P. Saunier |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 247 |
Release | : 2008-07-21 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0230613810 |
This collection uses the transnational activities of municipal urban governments to historicize the origins and development of the global city, focusing on how urban problems were addressed with concepts that emerged from the "world in between" nations and cities.
Author | : Lauren R. Clay |
Publisher | : Cornell University Press |
Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : 2013-01-11 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0801468213 |
Stagestruck traces the making of a vibrant French theater industry between the reign of Louis XIV and the French Revolution. During this era more than eighty provincial and colonial cities celebrated the inauguration of their first public playhouses. These theaters emerged as the most prominent urban cultural institutions in prerevolutionary France, becoming key sites for the articulation and contestation of social, political, and racial relationships. Combining rich description with nuanced analysis based on extensive archival evidence, Lauren R. Clay illuminates the wide-ranging consequences of theater's spectacular growth for performers, spectators, and authorities in cities throughout France as well as in the empire's most important Atlantic colony, Saint-Domingue. Clay argues that outside Paris the expansion of theater came about through local initiative, civic engagement, and entrepreneurial investment, rather than through actions or policies undertaken by the royal government and its agents. Reconstructing the business of theatrical production, she brings to light the efforts of a wide array of investors, entrepreneurs, directors, and actors-including women and people of color-who seized the opportunities offered by commercial theater to become important agents of cultural change. Portraying a vital and increasingly consumer-oriented public sphere beyond the capital, Stagestruck overturns the long-held notion that cultural change flowed from Paris and the royal court to the provinces and colonies. This deeply researched book will appeal to historians of Europe and the Atlantic world, particularly those interested in the social and political impact of the consumer revolution and the forging of national and imperial cultural networks. In addition to theater and literary scholars, it will attract the attention of historians and sociologists who study business, labor history, and the emergence of the modern French state.
Author | : B Guy Peters |
Publisher | : SAGE |
Total Pages | : 409 |
Release | : 2007-05-23 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1446204782 |
The past two decades have been marked by a period of substantial and often fundamental change in public administration. Critically reflecting on the utility of scholarly theory and the extent to which government practices inform the development of this theory, the Handbook of Public Administration was a landmark publication which served as an essential guide for both the practice of public administration today and its on-going development as an academic discipline. The Concise Paperback Edition provides a selection of 30 of the original articles in an accessible paperback format and includes a new introduction by B. Guy Peters and Jon Pierre. It is an essential point of reference for all students of public administration.
Author | : Alistair Cole |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 210 |
Release | : 2012-11-12 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1135129738 |
Local Governance in England and France addresses issues at the cutting edge of comparative politics and public policy. The book is based on extensive research and interviews, over 300 in total, with local decision makers in two pairs of cities in England and France: Lille and Leeds; Rennes and Southampton. No other Anglo-French comparative project has ever gone into such depth - based on actual case studies - making this book an invaluable resource for students and professionals alike. The book poses key questions about the changing role of the state, the difficulties of policy coordination in a fragmented institutional context, and about the relationship between governance, networks as well as political and democratic accountability. It will be of great interest to the professional research community, and practitioners in Britain, France and beyond, as well as to students of comparative politics, European public policy, British / French politics, European studies, public management and local government studies.