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CITIES & PEOPLE: A SOCIAL AND ARCHITECTURAL HISTORY

by Mark Girouard

Published by Yale University Press. 1st. 1985

Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper. In an inimitable feat of social history, Girouard analyzes how the development of fashionable society, the increase in trade, the growth of population, and the widening of power of the nation state influenced seventeenth- and eighteenth-century cities, and how the Industrial Revolution affected cities of the nineteenth century. Large format. Red cloth boards, gilt title to spine. Colour double-spread title page and colour & b/w illustrations throughout. vii and 397 pages including index.

Lower edge of boards lightly knocked (very minor). Corner bumped. Boards a little stained (faint). Top edge of text block a little grubby. A few minor foxspots to prelims else contents clean. Pictorial dustwrapper has a 2" split to lower front corners and a few marks. Musty odour present.

ISBN: 0300035020
Stock no. 1831225

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Contents

  • PART 1: THE CITY REBORN
  • 1. The Revival of the West
  • 2. Manufacture, Trade, and Money
  • 3. Church and State
  • 4. The Texture of Life
  • 5. Bruges and Venice
  • PART 2: THE CITY TRIUMPHANT
  • 6. Rome Resplendent
  • 7. The Rise of the North
  • 8. Amsterdam and Paris
  • 9. The Uses of Leisure
  • 10. A New Scale
  • 11. The City as Export
  • PART 3: THE EXPLODING CITY
  • 12. Manchester and the Industrial City
  • 13. London and the Growth of the Suburb
  • 14. Paris and the Boulevards
  • 15. America and the Birth of the Skyscraper
  • 16. Cities Round the World
  • 17. Babylon or Jerusalem
  • 18. Epilogue
  • Notes to the Text
  • Index

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