The city and the senses : urban culture since 1500 / edited by Alexander Cowan and Jill Steward.
2007
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The city and the senses : urban culture since 1500 / edited by Alexander Cowan and Jill Steward.
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Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2007]
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©2007
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xiii, 245 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Series
Historical urban studies.
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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.
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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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English
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Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2009. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
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0754605140 alkaline paper
9780754605140 alkaline paper
9780754605140 alkaline paper
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