City Limits: Perspectives on the Historical European City

By Glenn Clark, Greg T. Smith, Judith Owens

Recent studies of the structure and everyday activities of cities have highlighted the pluralism inherent in dense populations and looked at crucial themes such as culture, class, gender, governance, and social practices. City Limits advances this work by offering richly detailed studies of aspects of city life in such important early modern European centres as London, Paris, Augsburg, Amsterdam, Copenhagen, and Edinburgh.

In essays that capture the multiple aspects of urban life, contributors examine European cities through the lenses of history, literature, art, architecture, and music. Covering topics such as governance, performance, high culture and subculture, tourism, and journalism, this volume provides new and invigorating ways to think about cities both past and present. An innovative and interdisciplinary work, City Limits crosses conventional critical boundaries to depict a vibrant and moving cityscape of historical urban experience.

Contributors include Melanie A. Bailey (Centenary College of Louisiana), Mary A. Blackstone (University of Regina), Glenn Clark (University of Manitoba), Saskia Coenen Snyder (University of South Carolina), Alexander J. Fisher (University of British Columbia), Christopher Friedrichs (University of British Columbia), Susan Lewis Hammond (University of Victoria), Robin Hoople (University of Manitoba), Julie Johnson, Peter Lake (Vanderbilt University), Isaac Land (Indiana State University), Pam Perkins (University of Manitoba), Jon Saklofske (Acadia University), Greg T. Smith (University of Manitoba), Vanessa Warne (University of Manitoba), Johannes C. Wolfart (Carleton University), and Arlene Young (University of Manitoba).

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0773536523
• ISBN13: 9780773536524
• Release Date: February 2010
• Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
• Length: 396 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.9" x 8.9"