The city and the senses urban culture since 1500 /
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| Language: | English |
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Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT :
Ashgate,
c2007.
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| Series: | Historical urban studies
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Table of Contents:
- 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.