World Cities in History

Urban Networks from Ancient Mesopotamia to the Dutch Empire

Häftad, Engelska, 2024

AvJoshua 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.

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Utgivningsdatum2024-12-19
Mått229 x 152 x 21 mm
Vikt501 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor346
FörlagCambridge University Press
ISBN9781009444996

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1. Introduction; 2. Origins of urbanization: Mesopotamia; 3. Agora and Emporia: the Greek city-states; 4. Alexandria, alpha city; 5. City networks in the Roman Empire; 6. Tale of two Chang'ans: urban power in Han and Tang China; 7. City-state civilizations: Mesoamerica's urban revolution; 8. Baghdad: crossroads of the universe; 9. Italian communes and the rise of Venice; 10. Profit and power: the Hanseatic Network; 11. Urban power in the Dutch Empire; 12. Reflections: dangers ahead.

'Leon has written the definitive worldwide analysis of pre-industrial cities. Interweaving politics and economics, he presents both the grandeur and the wretchedness of the world's historic 'alpha cities.' From Uruk to Amsterdam, and with many fascinating stops in between, we learn how cities solved their inherent urban problems in similar yet distinctive ways. A genuine tour de force!' Peter J. Taylor, Loughborough University