World Cities in History
Urban Networks from Ancient Mesopotamia to the Dutch Empire
Inbunden, Engelska, 2024
Av Joshua K. Leon, New York) Leon, Joshua K. (Iona University, Joshua K Leon
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Joshua K. Leon explores 6,000 years of urban networks and the politics that drove them, from Uruk in the fourth millennium BCE to Amsterdam's seventeenth-century 'golden age.' He provides a fresh, interdisciplinary reading of significant periods in history, showing how global networks have shaped everyday life. Alongside grand architecture, art and literature, these extraordinary places also innovated ways to exert control over far-flung hinterlands, the labor of their citizens, and rigid class, race and gender divides. Asking what it meant for ordinary people to live in Athens, Rome, Chang'an, or Baghdad - those who built and fed these cities, not just their rulers - he offers one of the few fully rendered applications of world cities theory to historical cases. The result is not only vividly detailed and accessible, but an intriguing and theoretically original contribution to urban history.
Produktinformation
- Utgivningsdatum2024-12-19
- Mått236 x 160 x 26 mm
- Vikt671 g
- FormatInbunden
- SpråkEngelska
- Antal sidor346
- FörlagCambridge University Press
- ISBN9781009444972