“As Easy as Turning on the Tap”: Experiences of Water Usage in the City, 1918–1939

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter I
2. Acknowledgements V
3. Contents VII
4. Introduction 1
5. I Rome and Her Cities – The Polycentric Empire
6. The Dynamics of Dual-level Governance in the Roman Empire, First–Third Centuries CE: Incremental Permeation and Occasional Intrusions of Roman Normativity in Local Life 21
7. The Actors of the Roman Imperial System and Their Mobility: Personal Relationships and Official Communication in the Early Empire 39
8. Bilateral Relations, Federal Organisations, and Peer-Polity Interaction Within the Provinces of the Roman Empire 59
9. The Self-presentation of the Greek Cities in Roman Imperial Asia Minor 79
10. II Intersections of Polycentricity – The Medieval Towns
11. Performative Self-representation of City Governments 97
12. Securing Troops and Organising War by and between Communal States in the Swiss Confederation, 1350–1550 123
13. Political Governance and ‘Civil Concord’ in Venice: The Experience of the Humanist and Ambassador Ermolao Barbaro (1454–1492) 139
14. III The Polycentric Age – Early Modern Towns and the Patterns of Power
15. Beyond the Town Hall: Sites of Political Representation in Early Modern Europe 153
16. Polycentric Diplomacy? Actors and Levels of Foreign Policy in the Hanseatic Cities (Seventeenth–Eighteenth Centuries) 169
17. Cities, Princes, and the Politics of Alliance in the Early Modern Holy Roman Empire 189
18. The Composite City: Cities, Power Elites, and States in Early Modern European History 205
19. IV The Contemporary City – Polycentric Disorder?
20. Economic Boom, Environmental Crisis, and Polycentric Governance in a Transnational Perspective: Cities and States in Struggle along the Upper Rhine in the Late Nineteenth and the Late Twentieth Century 249
21. “As Easy as Turning on the Tap”: Experiences of Water Usage in the City, 1918–1939 271
22. Sister Cities and Urban Diplomacy Today 285
23. List of Contributors 299
24. Index Nominum 303
25. Index Rerum 309