Industrialization is still the factor that distinguishes the modern world from the past, and advanced countries from undeveloped ones. In this revised...
The history of the American city is, in many ways, the history of the United States. Although rural traditions have also left their impact on the...
How do we experience a city in terms of the senses? What are the inter-relations between human experience and behaviour in urban space? This volume...
Oral testimony is one of the most valuable but challenging sources for the study of modern history, providing access to knowledge and experience...
Charting the evolution of the port cities of Atlantic Spain and Portugal over four centuries, this book examines the often dynamic interaction between...
Public health policies had a profound impact on urban life in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, yet relatively few people took an...
The history of the voluntary sector in British towns and cities has received increasing scholarly attention in recent years. Nevertheless, whilst...
By the end of the nineteenth century, Paris was widely acknowledged as the cultural capital of the world, the home of avant-garde music and art...
First published in 1965, this book explores Oxford in the Victorian period, providing accounts of the development in the constitutional organisation...
Since the 1960s, many influential Latin Americans, such as the leaders of student movements and unions, and political authorities, participated in...