The city and the senses : urban culture since 1500 / edited by Alexander Cowan and Jill Steward.

Other author Cowan, Alexander.
Other author Steward, Jill.
Format Book
Publication InfoAldershot, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, ©2007.
Descriptionxiii, 245 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Supplemental ContentTable of contents only
Subjects
Cities and towns--Europe. --History.
Senses and sensation--Europe. --History.
Sociology, Urban--Europe.
Europe--History. --1492-.
Europe--Social conditions.

SeriesHistorical urban studies
Historical urban studies. ^A539275
Contents Introduction / Jill Steward and Alexander Cowan -- Stench in sixteenth-century Venice / Jo Wheeler -- 'Not carrying out the vile and mechanical arts' : touch as a measure of social distinction in early modern Venice / Alexander Cowan -- Speaking and listening in early modern London / Laura Wright -- Engineering vision in early modern Paris / Ulf Strohmayer -- Touching London : contact, sensibility, and the city / Ava Arndt -- Sewers and sensibilities : the bourgeois faecal experience in the nineteenth-century city / David Inglis -- 'We demand good and healthy beer' : the nutritional and social significance of beer for the lower classes in mid-nineteenth-century Munich / Kim Carpenter -- Boulevard culture and advertising as spectacle in nineteenth-century Paris / Hazel Hahn -- A taste of Vienna : food as a signifier of urban modernity in Vienna, 1890-1930 / Janet Stewart -- Seeing imperial Berlin : Lesser Ury, the painter as stranger / Dorothy Rowe -- Street noises : celebrating the liberation of Paris in music and dance / Rosemary Wakeman.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2006003937
ISBN0754605140 (alk. paper)

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Joyner General Stacks HT131 .C523 2007 ✔ Available Place Hold