Urban History

Mesta Evrope. Mitovi i granice (Places of Europe, Myths and Limits)

by Stella Ghervas

Co-edited with F. Rosset, Serbian translation by Olja Petronić &  Snežana Spasojević, Belgrade, Biblioteka XX vek, 2010, 324 p.

Me­sto je u pr­vom re­du pro­stor­ni po­jam. Po­red to­ga je i re­per ko­ji mo­že da po­slu­ži kao pr­va re­fe­ren­ca... more Me­sto je u pr­vom re­du pro­stor­ni po­jam. Po­red to­ga je i re­per ko­ji mo­že da po­slu­ži kao pr­va re­fe­ren­ca u iz­grad­nji iden­ti­te­ta. Ot­ka­ko je Pjer No­ra upo­tre­bio sin­tag­mu "me­sto se­ća­nja" ka­ko bi is­tra­žio te­me­lje fran­cu­skog iden­ti­te­ta (No­ra 1997), po­jam me­sto vi­še ne ozna­ča­va sa­mo ge­o­graf­ske lo­ka­li­te­te: pri­me­nju­je se i na me­mo­rij­ske pod­lo­ge i na kul­tur­ne re­fe­ren­ce sa iden­ti­tet­skom na­me­nom. Po­li­tič­ki sim­bo­li, ko­me­mo­ra­ci­je, spo­me­ni­ci i in­sti­tu­ci­je, isto kao i kul­tur­ne prak­se ili pak ne­ki pe­da­go­ški sa­dr­ža­ji, sad su sve to "me­sta" u istom smi­slu, ma­da dru­ga­či­je vr­ste, kao pla­nin­ski vr­ho­vi, rto­vi ili po­lu­o­str­va. Ta­ko re­de­fi­ni­sa­na u od­no­su na svo­ju po­ten­ci­jal­no iden­ti­tet­sku na­me­nu, (spo­men) me­sta se ne da­ju la­ko po­pi­sa­ti, ni­ti svr­sta­ti u una­pred utvr­đe­ne ru­bri­ke. Tri ka­te­go­ri­je - Po­lo­vi - Te­ri­to­ri­je - Na­sle­đa - ko­je smo de­fi­ni­sa­li kao spo­je­ve ovog de­la, ne mo­gu te­ži­ti da ob­u­hva­te sva mo­gu­ća zna­če­nja me­sta Evro­pe, kao što, uosta­lom, ni trip­tih Re­pu­bli­ka - Na­ci­ja - Fran­cu­ska(e) ni­je mo­gao da ob­u­hva­ti sva me­sta se­ća­nja is­tra­že­na u ko­lek­tiv­nom de­lu što ga je ure­dio Pjer No­ra. Ta­ko raz­li­či­ti tek­sto­vi u na­šem de­lu če­sto iz­la­ze iz okvi­ra ru­bri­ka ko­je na­sto­je da ih raz­vr­sta­ju pre­ma pri­rod­nim srod­no­sti­ma. Njih tre­ba shva­ti­ti i kao ori­jen­ti­re, me­đu­sob­no po­ve­za­ne broj­nim mo­sti­ći­ma. Mo­gu­ći pu­te­vi ko­ji vo­de od jed­ne do dru­ge ta­ko­đe su, da­kle, broj­ni.

Stela Gervas (Stella Ghervas) radi kao istraživač u Univerzitetskom institutu za visoke međunarodne studije u  Ženevi i u Institutu za studije o Jugoistočnoj Evropi u Bukureštu. Fransoa Rose (Fraçois Rosset) je profesor na Odseku za francuski jezik na Univerzitetu u Lozani.

Lieux d'Europe. Mythes et limites (Places of Europe, Myths and Limits)

by Stella Ghervas

Co-edited with F. Rosset, Paris, Editions de la Maison des Sciences de l'Homme, 2008

Alors qu'elle s'interroge, se regarde et se raconte depuis des siècles, l’Europe demeure perplexe au miroir de ses... more Alors qu'elle s'interroge, se regarde et se raconte depuis des siècles, l’Europe demeure perplexe au miroir de ses inépuisables productions. Elle est à l’étroit dans les paragraphes étriqués des documents juridiques, elle tend à se soustraire aux appropriations idéologiques de toutes obédiences, dépasse toujours les images d’elle-même qu’elle crée sans relâche, échappe à sa propre histoire comme à ses historiens, à ses géographes et à tous ceux qui s’efforcent de la définir. Mais elle offre à l’expérience et à l’imagination des hommes la richesse infiniment diversifiée de son patrimoine. S’il est encore et toujours difficile de dire l’Europe, du moins peut-on la percevoir et la toucher, surtout en ces lieux singuliers mais innombrables où se livre au regard et à l’esprit un surcroît de sens. Frontières, carrefours, passages, nœuds urbains, vastes plaines, lieux de commémoration ou de mémoire : ce sont quelques-uns d’entre eux qui ont inspiré les auteurs de cet ouvrage. Dire l’Europe, sous leurs plumes croisées, c’est la redire sans cesse dans la multiplicité de ses manifestations particulières.

Musées d'art moderne et contemporain : une exploration conceptuelle et historique

by Julien Bastoen

Published in 2010 by L'Harmattan, Paris, France.
French translation of J. Pedro Lorente's "Museos de arte contemporaneo : nocion y desarrollo historico". Gijon: Ediciones Trea, 2008.

Where, how, by whom and for what were the first museums of contemporary art created? These are the key questions... more Where, how, by whom and for what were the first museums of contemporary art created? These are the key questions addressed by J. Pedro Lorente in this book. In it he explores the concept and history of museums of contemporary art, and the shifting ways in which they have been imagined and presented.

Following an introduction that sets out the historiography and considering questions of terminology, the first part of the book then examines the paradigm of the Musée des Artistes Vivants in Paris and its equivalents in the rest of Europe during the nineteenth century. The second part takes the story forward from 1930 to the present, presenting New York's Museum of Modern Art as a new universal role model that found emulators or 'contramodels' in the rest of the Western world during the twentieth century. An epilogue, reviews recent museum developments in the last decades.

Through its adoption of a long-term, worldwide perspective, the book not only provides a narrative of the development of museums of contemporary art, but also sets this into its international perspective. By assessing the extent to which the great museum-capitals – Paris, London and New York in particular – created their own models of museum provision, as well as acknowledging the influence of such models elsewhere, the book uncovers fascinating perspectives on the practice of museum provision, and reveals how present cultural planning initiatives have often been shaped by historical uses.

Contents: Introduction; Part I The Parisian Musée du Luxembourg as a Paradigm in the 19th Century: The origin of the Musée des Artistes Vivants in Paris; The first emulators and alternatives to the Luxembourg; Unresolved dilemmas in the last third of the 19th century; Utopian ideas and experiments at the turn of the 19th century. Part II The Role of the MoMA of New York as the International Model of the 20th Century: Foundations and context of the MoMA's creation; MoMA's transition to adulthood amidst war and confrontations; MoMA as an international role model during the Cold War: triumph and opposition; The Pompidou Centre, a counter-model which ends up imitating MoMA; Topographic review of the new museums of contemporary art at the turn of the millennium; Epilogue; References; Index.

Des religions dans la ville. Ressorts et stratégies de coexistence dans l’Europe des XVIe-XVIIIe siècles

by David Do Paço

David DO PAÇO, Mathilde MONGE et Laurent TATARENKO (dir.), Rennes, Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2010.

À l’époque moderne, les conflits violents ne sont pas l’unique réponse à la division religieuse. Si la ville,... more À l’époque moderne, les conflits violents ne sont pas l’unique réponse à la division religieuse. Si la ville, carrefour économique, intellectuel et social, est un lieu de production et d’inscription des différences, un lieu de frictions, elle est également le terrain de pratiques et d’arrangements quotidiens de ses populations. Cet ouvrage analyse la polysémie de cette coexistence, de Vilnius à Malaga, d’Amsterdam à Livourne et montre que le modèle de la confessionnalisation y révèle à la fois ses limites et son intérêt. En complément, quatre mises au point thématiques situent l’étude dans les débats historiographiques actuels.

Fazioni al governo. Politica e società a Parma nel Quattrocento

by Marco Gentile

Viella, Roma 2009

Che cos’è una fazione nel Quattrocento? Il libro cerca di rispondere a questa domanda ripercorrendo le vicende di... more Che cos’è una fazione nel Quattrocento? Il libro cerca di rispondere a questa domanda ripercorrendo le vicende di Parma, città nota ai contemporanei per la forza delle sue divisioni interne e per la vivacità dei contrasti che ne agitavano la vita politica, in piazza e nei Consigli cittadini.
La ricostruzione analitica della società politica parmense del XV secolo consente di procedere oltre la tradizionale visione storiografica dei partiti tardomedievali come portatori di insensata violenza, evidenziando come il disordine abbia le sue regole; e permette al tempo stesso di mettere in discussione il concetto di fazione come aggregato informale e fluido trasmessa agli storici del tardo medioevo e della prima età moderna dall’antropologia e dalla sociologia post-strutturaliste.
L’indagine mette a fuoco una pluralità di forme e di livelli d’azione dei gruppi politicizzati: le quattro «squadre», partiti cittadini dotati di un alto profilo istituzionale e stabilmente legati ai potenti casati signorili del contado; le «conventicole e sette», reticoli informali e lobbies che si coagulano intorno ad obiettivi aperti e chiusi nell’ombra dei giochi cortigiani e sulla grande scena del sistema degli stati italiani; le vecchie ma sempre incombenti metafazioni dei guelfi e dei ghibellini, ancora disponibili in pieno Quattrocento per chi sappia sfruttarne a fini politici il grande potenziale simbolico e l’intatta capacità di ridestare solidarietà antiche e profonde.

Fundación e Independencia. Fuentes documentales para la historia de Valdepeñas de Jaén (1508-1558)

by Amparo López Arandia

Co-authored with José Miguel Delgado Barrado and José Fernández García
Edited by Diputación Provincial de Jaén, Jaén, 2009
ISBN: 978-84-96218-76-5
354 pages

ÍNDICE

Textos institucionales
La formación de una identidad común.- Felipe López García more ÍNDICE

Textos institucionales
La formación de una identidad común.- Felipe López García
Valdepeñas de Jaén, un enclave privilegiado.- Mª Paz del Moral Milla
La fundación de ciudades. Un paso hacia la Modernidad.- Manuel Parras Rosa

Prólogo.- Luis Coronas Tejada

Introducción

FUNDACIÓN E INDEPENDENCIA DE VALDEPEÑAS DE JAÉN (1508-1558)

Parte primera. El tiempo de doña Juana, reina de Castilla

Parte segunda. De los orígenes de Valdepeñas a los primeros asentamientos de colonos (1508-1539)

- Las claves interpretativas de los orígenes del proceso

- Algunas observaciones sobre la autoría del manuscrito fundacional

- Los principales rasgos del proceso colonizador

- Conflictividad y enfrentamiento en la fundación de Valdepeñas

- Análisis y comentarios históricos del documento y del proceso fundacional de Valdepeñas de Jaén

Parte tercera. De lugar a villa independiente (1554-1558)

- Valdepeñas en el contexto generañ de segregaciones e independencias

- Algunos aspectos generales y específicos de Valdepeñas entre 1554-1558

Conclusiones

Abreviaturas y siglas

Bibliografía

Apéndice documental. Fuentes documentales para la historia de Valdepeñas de Jaén (1508-1558)

Normas de edición

Normas de transcripción

Anexo I. Quaderno que por extrazion y copias simples de algunas noticias para actuarse de la fundacion de esta villa, erigida en lugar a sus principios con el nombre de El Valdepeñas

Notas a la edición de 2003

Anexo II. Privilegio de Felipe II otorgando el título de villa a Valdepeñas, declarando su independencia de la ciudad de Jaén

Edición facsímil

Transcripción

Glosario de términos

Ciudades de Jaén en la Historia (siglos XV-XXI). Mitos y realidades

by Amparo López Arandia

Co-authored with José Miguel Delgado Barrado
Edited by Universidad de Sevilla, Sevilla, 2011
ISBN: 978-84-472-1339-9
385 pages

La poliédrica realidad del mundo urbano favorece un análisis interdisciplinar de la ciudad a lo largo de la Historia.... more La poliédrica realidad del mundo urbano favorece un análisis interdisciplinar de la ciudad a lo largo de la Historia. El objetivo de "Ciudades de Jaén en la Historia (siglos XV-XXI). Mitos y realidades", es analizar a través de una visión interdisciplinar, donde se dan la mano Historia, Geografía, Literatura, Antropología... y de larga duración, desde la Edad Media hasta nuestros días, algunas de las principales ciudades de la actual provincia de Jaén, como Úbeda, Baeza, Andújar, Baños de la Encina, Linares, Jaén... Historias urbanas o ciudadanas que se mueven entre los mitos construidos a través de los tiempos, que perduran, desaparecen o se transforman, junto a una realidad marcada por los avatares de cada ciudad en particular. El lector podrá así comprobar cómo estas particularidades de Jaén pueden aplicarse, por la vía de la historia comparada, a otros espacios y ciudades


ÍNDICE

Prólogo, Ofelia Rey Castelao

PROEMIO
Visiones interdisciplinares de las ciudades de Jaén
María Amparo López Arandia, José Miguel Delgado Barrado

DISCURSOS DE PODER, MITO Y CULTURA

Imágenes y palabras. Hacia la construcción de una identidad urbana en el reino de Jaén en la Edad Moderna
José Miguel Delgado Barrado

Plasmación cartográfica del poder en el reino de Jaén. Análisis de la evolución entre finales de los siglos XVI y XVIII
María José Cuesta Aguilar y Egidio Moya García

Sobre la identidad legendaria de Linares: la griega "Hellanes"
Juan Carlos Sánchez León

La dedicatoria del humanista Antonio Calderón a la ciudad de Baeza (1618). Edición y comentario
Raúl Manchón Gómez

El ambiente universitario a través de "La Letra a un estudiante" de Gaspar Salcedo de Aguirre
María Dolores Rincón González

Fiestas y metamorfosis ciudadanas a finales del siglo XV: Jaén y el Condestable Miguel Lucas
José Julio Martín Romero

Los espacios de poder conventuales de Jaén desde sus orígenes hasta la Ilustración
María Eloísa Ramírez de Juan

El agua en y para las ciudades como clave de análisis para el conocimiento del poder público y privado
María Consuelo Díez Bedmar

DE LA UTOPÍA AL TOPOS: FUNDACIONES, REPOBLACIONES Y CONFLICTOS

De las ciudades del Renacimiento a las ciudades de la Ilustración. El caso del reino de Jaén
María Amparo López Arandia

Ciudad e identidad urbana en la Castilla Bajomedieval. La ciudad fronteriza de Jaén
Eva María Alcázar Hernández

Antes y después de la exención: Jaén, sus lugares y las villas eximidas (1590-1640)
Ángel Aponte Marín

"Malos usos" ciudadanos y segregación de villas en la Edad Moderna: el caso de Baños de la Encina frente al Concejo de Baeza
Isabel Ramos Vázquez

El lenguaje del conflicto: los discursos de poder de las élites locales a través de los procedimientos de segregación o agregación municipal
Miguel Ángel Chamocho Cantudo

Las Nuevas Poblaciones del reino de Jaén
José Fernández García

UNA MIRADA AL ESPACIO URBANO ACTUAL

La agrociudad: un modelo para acercarse a Jaén
José Luis Anta Félez

Performing Medicine: Medical Culture and Identity in Provincial England, c. 1760-1850

by Michael Brown

When did medicine become modern?  This book takes a fresh look at one of the most important questions in the... more When did medicine become modern?  This book takes a fresh look at one of the most important questions in the history of medicine.  It explores how the cultures, values and meanings of medicine were transformed across the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries as its practitioners came to submerge their local identities as urbane and learned gentlemen into the ideal of a nationwide and scientifically-based medical profession.

Moving beyond traditional accounts of professionalization it adopts a cultural historical approach to the subject, demonstrating how visions of what medicine was and might be were shaped by wider social and political forces, from the eighteenth-century values of civic gentility to the radical and socially progressive ideologies of the age of reform.  Focusing on the provincial English city of York, it draws on a rich and wide-ranging archival record, including letters, diaries, newspapers and portraits, to reveal how these changes took place at the level of everyday practice, experience and representation.

Performing medicine reveals the cultural and ideological roots of modern British medicine, including its emphasis upon the values of expertise and public service.  It therefore has important implications for the way we think about medicine in the present day, especially in its relationship to the public and the state.  As such it will be of interest to those who are concerned with British medicine’s current state and future course and will prove invaluable to historians of medicine as well as to students of civic culture and the age of reform.

At Europe's Borders: Medieval Towns in the Romanian Principalities

by Laurentiu Radvan

transl. in English by Valentin Cirdei

This ambitious work focuses on the emergence and the development of medieval towns in the two Romanian principalities... more This ambitious work focuses on the emergence and the development of medieval towns in the two Romanian principalities of South-Eastern Europe, Wallachia and Moldavia, from their earliest days, in the 13th century, up to the 16th. It is the only work of its kind in English, but at the same time the first in the field seeking to identify and substantiate common elements between towns in this area of Europe. It also covers Poland, Hungary and the lands south of the Danube. By relying both on various written sources, and on archeological finds, the author addresses several controversial issues, starting from the particulars of urbanization, through an analysis of local institutions, of urban society and economy, and concluding with thorough case studies. The result is a book which shows that medieval towns in the Romanian Principalities, despite being on the outskirts of Europe, were nevertheless part of it.

Oraşele din Ţările Române în Evul Mediu: sfârşitul secolului al XIII-lea - începutul secolului al XVI-lea

by Laurentiu Radvan

Cartea are la bază lucrarea intitulată At Europe's Borders: Medieval Towns in the Romanian Principalities, apărută în... more Cartea are la bază lucrarea intitulată At Europe's Borders: Medieval Towns in the Romanian Principalities, apărută în februarie 2010, la Editura Brill din Olanda, la care au fost adăugate informaţiile lăsate deoparte la ediţia în limba engleză şi s-a adus la zi bibliografia acestei vaste teme.
Cu totul, acest volum cuprinde cu aproape 800 de note mai mult (cu totul 3670 note, faţă de 2900 la ediţia în engleză), la bibliografie adăugându-se în mod firesc numeroase lucrări necitate anterior sau chiar noi, apărute în intervalul 2008 - 2011. Cele mai multe adăugiri se află în părţile a doua şi a treia, ce conţin segmentul cel mai important al lucrării: completări semnificative s-au făcut în partea a doua a lucrării, la discuţia cu privire la urbanizarea din Ţara Românească, precum şi la micro-monografii, ca şi în partea a treia a lucrării, cea dedicată oraşelor din Moldova, unde secţiunea cea mai consistentă, cuprinzând micro-monografiile, este în bună parte rescrisă.

The Magical Imagination: Magic and Modernity in Urban England, 1780-1914

by Karl Bell

This book explores the dynamic ways in which the magical imagination helped people to adjust to urban life in... more This book explores the dynamic ways in which the magical imagination helped people to adjust to urban life in nineteenth-century England. Previous studies of modern popular magical practices and supernatural beliefs have largely neglected the urban experience. This study examines the magical imagination as a key cultural resource which granted an empowering sense of plebeian agency in the nineteenth-century urban environment. Rather than portraying magical beliefs and practices as a mere enclave of anachronistic 'tradition' and the fantastical as simply an escapist refuge from the real, this study explores magic's adaptive and transformative qualities and the ways in which it helped ordinary people navigate, adapt to and resist aspects of modern urbanization. Drawing on perspectives from cultural anthropology, sociology, folklore and urban studies, this book seeks to contribute to our understanding of modern popular magic and the lived experience of modernization and urbanization.

L’architettura a Roma al tempo di Pio IX (1830 – 1870)

by Gianfranco Spagnesi

Edizioni Studium – Roma
Seconda edizione - 2000

Roma: La Basilica di San Pietro, il Borgo e la Città

by Gianfranco Spagnesi

Palombi Editori/Jaca book
Prima edizione - Gennaio 2003

Gated Communities? Regulating Migration in Early Modern Cities

by Anne Winter

Aldershot: Ashgate, 2012, 294 p.
Co-edited with Bert De Munck

Naples from Roman Town to City-State: an archaeological perspective

by Paul Arthur

The British School at Rome monograph series no. 12, 2002.

Jane Jacobs and the City

by Peter Laurence

Forthcoming from University of Pennsylvania Press 2012 Forthcoming from University of Pennsylvania Press 2012

Kaupang in Skiringssal.

by Dagfinn Skre

Kaupang Excavation Project publication Series, vol. 1. Norske Oldfunn, vol. 22. Aarhus University Press, Aarhus 2007.

Ghetto Images in Twentieth-Century American Literature: Writing Apartheid

by Burke Gerstenschlager

Tyrone R. Simpson II is an assistant professor in the Department of English as well as in Urban Studies, Africana Studies, and American Culture at Vassar College.

Future of Minority Studies Series Editors: Satya P. Mohanty, Michael Hames-García, Linda Martín Alcoff, Paula M. L. Moya, and Tobin Siebers

In this comprehensive work, Tyrone R. Simpson, II, explores how six American writers - Anzia Yezierska, Michael Gold,... more In this comprehensive work, Tyrone R. Simpson, II, explores how six American writers - Anzia Yezierska, Michael Gold, Hubert Selby Jr., Chester Himes, Gloria Naylor, and John Edgar Wideman - have artistically responded to the racialization of U.S. frostbelt cities in the twentieth century. By using the critical tools of spatial theory, critical race theory, urban history, and urban sociology, Simpson accounts for how these writers imagine the subjective response to the race-making power of space.

"Taking the ghetto as a race-making institution dependent on technologies of im/mobility, Tyrone Simpson offers a lucid analysis of the urban ecology of twentieth century U.S. fiction. Giving new meaning to the fine art of close reading, he approaches the spatial as a dense psychic territory, one that requires an interdisciplinary array of knowledges to adequately parse. This is a vibrant literary engagement with critical race theory." - Robyn Wiegman, Professor, Literature and Women's Studies, Duke University, author of American Anatomies: Theorizing Race and Gender and Object Lessons

'Tyrone Simpson gives us a compelling portrait of the historic pain and hope seared into America's rust belt ghettos. Under Simpson's deft prose, a new voice to understanding these racialized spaces – the engaged writer – is powerfully revealed.' - David Wilson, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Osmanlı Irak'ında İngiliz Nüfuzuna Tepkiler : Dicle ve Fırat'ta Seyr-i Sefain İmtiyazı Teşebbüsü

by Burcu Kurt

Istanbul: Osmanli Bankasi Yayinlari, 2009

Bu kitap, Osmanlı Irak’ında bir Osmanlı-İngiliz Seyrisefain Şirketi kurulması tasarıları ile bunun neticesinde İngiliz... more Bu kitap, Osmanlı Irak’ında bir Osmanlı-İngiliz Seyrisefain Şirketi kurulması tasarıları ile bunun neticesinde İngiliz nüfuzuna karşı ortaya çıkan ve başını büyük ölçüde bölge tüccarlarının çektiği geniş katılımlı protesto gösterilerini konu ediyor. Özellikle Bağdat ve civarında yoğunlaşan bu eylemlere yerel tüccarlar bazındaki katılım bu dönemdeki merkez-çevre ilişkilerine ışık tutarken, bu tüccarların ve onların öncülüğünde hareket eden halkın kullandığı dil de dönemin genel eğilimi olan Arap milliyetçiliğinin aksine Osmanlıcı söylemin altını çiziyor. Mahalli eşrafın başı çektiği ve hiçbir din ve mezhep ayrımı yapılmaksızın Bağdat ve Basra vilayetlerinin büyük kesiminin neredeyse bir bütün halinde katıldığı bu tepkilerde İngiltere’nin bölgedeki nüfuzuna yönelik vurgular da mercek altına alınıyor. Büyük ölçüde arşiv malzemesine dayanan bu çalışma, şu ana kadar bölgedeki hareketlilikleri Arap milliyetçiliği çerçevesiyle sınırlandıran bakış açısına bir alternatif sunmayı amaçlıyor.

La fira de Gandia 1311-2011

by Frederic Aparisi Romero

Co-authored with Jesús E. Alonso and J. Enric Gonga