Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents v
3. Figures and Tables vii
4. Acknowledgments ix
5. Introduction 1
6. Placing the City
7. Preface 25
8. What Made the Eurasian City Work? Urban Political Cultures in Early Modern Europe and Asia 29
9. Global Yokels: Vernacular Manuscript Chronicles and Urban Identity in Early Modern Germany 65
10. Renaissance Venice as a Musical Model for Copenhagen 88
11. Walking The City Limits: The Performance of Authority and Identity in Mary Tudor’s Norwich 106
12. Rational Luxuries and Civilized Pleasures: Nationalizing Elite Parisian Values, 1848–49 139
13. The “Divine Little City” and the “Terrible Town”: Henry James on Florence and New York 159
14. Gender, Mobility, and the City
15. Preface 183
16. Exploring Edinburgh: Urban Tourism in Late Eighteenth-Century Britain 187
17. Clearing the Streets: Blindness and Begging in Henry Mayhew’s London Labour and the London Poor 205
18. A Contested City: Gwen John, Suzanne Valadon, and Women Artists in Fin-de-Siècle Paris 227
19. Redressing Boundaries
20. Preface 247
21. Alls wie mann inn krieg pflegt zue thuen: Music and Catholic Processions in Counter-Reformation Augsburg 254
22. “Madness in a Magnificent Building”: Gentile Responses to Jewish Synagogues in Amsterdam, 1670–1730 273
23. Between History and Hope: The Urban Centre of William Blake and William Wordsworth 300
24. The Humours of Sailortown: Atlantic History Meets Subculture Theory 325
25. Postscript 348
26. Bibliography 353
27. Bibliography 391
28. Index 393