Emotional Cities

Joseph Ben Prestel is a historian of Europe and the Middle East at Freie Universität Berlin. He received his PhD in history from FU Berlin in 2015. Before joining FU's history department, he held a position at the research center for the History of Emotions at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development. He has also held fellowships at Cambridge University and the American University in Cairo.

• Introduction 1: What is Love? Morality and "French Stimulation" in Berlin 2: Who is Rational? Feelings between Hearts and Hymens in Cairo 3: Streets of Excitement: Emotions on Friedrichstraße 4: Neighborhood of Passion: Losing Rationality in Azbakiyya 5: Precarious Calm: Berlin's Emotional Reform 6: Haunted Happiness: Cairo's Suburbs and Sports Conclusion: Towards a Global History of Urban Change in the Nineteenth Century Bibliography

Joseph Prestel is one of the first scholars to deploy the approaches of the recent emotional turn in historiography for the benefit of modern urban history... In a scholarly field in which so much of our knowledge still harks back to the history of a handful of Western metropolises, one can only hope that the approach Prestel proposes in this book inspires many to follow.