Screen LibraryThe city and the senses：urban culture since 1500
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| Group Author: | ; |
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| Published: |
Ashgate,
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| Publisher Address: | Aldershot, England |
| Publication Dates: | c2007. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Series: |
Historical urban studies |
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| Carrier Form: | xiii, 245 p.: ill. ; 24 cm. |
| ISBN: |
0754605140 (alk. paper) 9780754605140 (alk. paper) |
| Index Number: | F299 |
| CLC: |
F299.509-05 F299.509 |
| Call Number: | F299.509/C581 |
| Contents: |
Includes bibliographical references and index. 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. |