ISBN:
0754605140
,
9780754605140
Language:
English
Pages:
XIII, 245 S.
,
Ill.
Additional Information:
Rezensiert in Cooper, Lisa H. [Rezension von: Cowan, Alexander, The City and the Senses: Urban Culture since 1500] 2008
Series Statement:
Historical urban studies series
DDC:
307.76094
Keywords:
Cities and towns History
;
Senses and sensation History
;
Sociology, Urban
;
Stadt
;
Kultur
;
Wahrnehmung
;
Sinne
;
Geschichte 1500-2000
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Europe History 1492-
;
Europe Social conditions
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Europa
;
Großstadt
;
Kultur
;
Geschichte 1500-1945
;
Stadt
;
Kultur
;
Wahrnehmung
;
Sinne
;
Geschichte 1500-2000
Description / Table of 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
Note:
Includes index
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