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Urban History (Hardcover)
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Urban History (Hardcover)
Series: Critical Concepts in Historical Studies
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With over half the world's population now living in cities,
urbanization is one of the defining features of the contemporary
world, and urban history - the study of the processes and
consequences of urbanization - is one of the most dynamic fields of
modern and contemporary history. But the dynamism of urban history
is not confined to the modern era and the study of urban societies
in the less recent past equally represents a highly fertile field
of scholarship. This collection will provide an expert overview of
the field of urban history and a representative synthesis of past
and current scholarship in urban history. The articles selected
will explore key debates and conceptual issues in urban history
from a global perspective highlighting the benefits of comparative
historical research and of interdisciplinary approaches drawn from
the humanities and social sciences . The recent expansion of global
history and transnational perspectives in historical research is
particularly suited to the study of urban history, given the
importance of cities as nodal points in the networks of global
exchange and communication and this volume. The collection will
also adopt a deliberately broad chronological span from antiquity
to the twentieth century in order to facilitate diachronic
comparisons and to emphasize the continuities, as well as
discontinuities in urban history. The volumes differ from the
several 'urban studies' readers that are already available on the
market in that the long term historical perspective is central to
their conception. They will address theories of urbanization and
methodological and conceptual issues of urban history, including
questions of definition, as well as covering wider thematic issues
that are representative of the different disciplinary approaches
that have influenced urban history and which reflect the wider
questions that urban historians have, historically, sought to
address.
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