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  • Politics of Urban Knowledge

    Historical Perspectives on the Shaping and Governing of Cities

    Edited by Bert De Munck, Jens Lachmund ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Urban History
    This book uses 'politics of urban knowledge' as a lens to understand how professionals, administrations, scholars, and social movements have surveyed, evaluated and theorized the city, identified problems, and shaped and legitimized practical interventions in planning and administration.Urbanization has been accompanied, and partly shaped by, the formation of the city as a distinct domain of ... Read more

    $56.99 USD

  • A Cultural History of Work in the Early Modern Age

    Edited by Professor Bert De Munck, Professor Thomas Max Safley ...
    Series series The Cultural Histories Series
    Winner of the 2020 PROSE Award for Multivolume Reference/HumanitiesIn the early modern age technological innovations were unimportant relative to political and social transformations. The size of the workforce and the number of wage dependent people increased, due in large part to population growth, but also as a result of changes in the organization of work. The diversity of workplaces in many ... Read more

    $30.79 USD

  • Knowledge and the Early Modern City

    A History of Entanglements

    Edited by Bert De Munck, Antonella Romano ...
    Series series Knowledge Societies in History
    Knowledge and the Early Modern City uses case studies from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries to examine the relationships between knowledge and the city and how these changed in a period when the nature and conception of both was drastically transformed.Both knowledge formation and the European city were increasingly caught up in broader institutional structures and regional and global ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • Urbanizing Nature

    Actors and Agency (Dis)Connecting Cities and Nature Since 1500

    Edited by Tim Soens, Dieter Schott, Michael Toyka-Seid, Bert De Munck ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Urban History
    What do we mean when we say that cities have altered humanity’s interaction with nature? The more people are living in cities, the more nature is said to be "urbanizing": turned into a resource, mobilized over long distances, controlled, transformed and then striking back with a vengeance as "natural disaster". Confronting insights derived from Environmental History, Science and Technology Studies ... Read more

    $63.99 USD

  • Concepts of Value in European Material Culture, 1500-1900

    by Bert De Munck, Dries Lyna ...
    Series series The History of Retailing and Consumption
    In contemporary society it would seem self-evident that people allow the market to determine the values of products and services. For everything from a loaf of bread to a work of art to a simple haircut, value is expressed in monetary terms and seen as determined primarily by the 'objective' interplay between supply and demand. Yet this 'price-mechanism' is itself embedded in conventions and ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Guilds, Labour and the Urban Body Politic

    Fabricating Community in the Southern Netherlands, 1300-1800

    by Bert De Munck ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Early Modern History
    This book presents a new view on the relation between labour and community through a focus on craft guilds. In the Southern Netherlands, occupational guilds were both powerful and governed by manufacturing masters, enabling the latter to imprint their mark upon urban society in an economic, socio-cultural and political way. While the urban community was deeply indebted to a corporative spirit and ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • Innovation and Creativity in Late Medieval and Early Modern European Cities

    Edited by Karel Davids, Bert De Munck ...
    Late medieval and early modern cities are often depicted as cradles of artistic creativity and hotbeds of new material culture. Cities in renaissance Italy and in seventeenth and eighteenth-century northwestern Europe are the most obvious cases in point. But, how did this come about? Why did cities rather than rural environments produce new artistic genres, new products and new techniques? How did ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Gated Communities?

    Regulating Migration in Early Modern Cities

    by Anne Winter ...
    Contrary to earlier views of preindustrial Europe as an essentially sedentary society, research over the past decades has amply demonstrated that migration was a pervasive characteristic of early modern Europe. In this volume, the theme of urban migration is explored through a series of historical contexts, journeying from sixteenth-century Antwerp, Ulm, Lille and Valenciennes, through seventeenth ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Cities and Creativity from the Renaissance to the Present

    Edited by Ilja Van Damme, Bert De Munck, Andrew Miles ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Urban History
    This volume critically challenges the current creative city debate from a historical perspective. In the last two decades, urban studies has been engulfed by a creative city narrative in which concepts like the creative economy, the creative class or creative industries proclaim the status of the city as the primary site of human creativity and innovation. So far, however, nobody has challenged ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

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  • The Oxford Handbook of the History of Consumption

    Edited by Frank Trentmann ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    The term 'consumption' covers the desire for goods and services, their acquisition, use, and disposal. The study of consumption has grown enormously in recent years, and it has been the subject of major historiographical debates: did the eighteenth century bring a consumer revolution? Was there a great divergence between East and West? Did the twentieth century see the triumph of global ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

  • Spatial Agency: Other Ways of Doing Architecture

    by Nishat Awan, Tatjana Schneider, Jeremy Till ...
    This book offers the first comprehensive overview of alternative approaches to architectural practice.At a time when many commentators are noting that alternative and richer approaches to architectural practice are required if the profession is to flourish, this book provides multiple examples from across the globe of how this has been achieved and how it might be achieved in the future ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • The Great Wave : Price Revolutions And The Rhythm Of History

    by David Hackett Fischer ...
    David Hackett Fischer, one of our most prominent historians, has garnered a reputation for making history come alive--even stories as familiar as Paul Revere's ride, or as complicated as the assimilation of British culture in North America. Now, in The Great Wave, Fischer has done it again, marshaling an astonishing array of historical facts in lucid and compelling prose to outline a history of ... Read more

    $20.99 USD