CONTENTS
Preface = ⅸ
Introduction : The Editors = xi
Book One : Defining the Urban = 1
Part Ⅰ : A Town is a Town Wherever it is?
(1) The Nature of Urbanization / Eric E. Lampard = 3
(2) When Villages Become Towns : The Historical Contexts of Town Formation / Stuart M. Blumin = 54
Part Ⅱ : The Early Modern Town
(3) Urban History and Urban Anthropology of Early Modern Europe / Peter Burke = 69
(4) Milk and Soot : The Changing Vocabulary of a Popular Ritual in Stuart and Hanoverian London / Charles Phythian-Adams = 83
(5) Visions of the Urban Community : Antiquarians and the English City Before 1800 / Peter Clark = 105
Part Ⅲ : Perceiving the Urban
(6) Visitors' Perceptions of Urbanization : Travel Literature in Tsarist Russia / Patricia Herlihy = 125
(7) The Idea of the City in the American South / Blaine A. Brownell = 138
(8) Perceptions of Cities in Britain and Germany 1820 - 1914 / Andrew Less = 151
Book Two : The City as an Economic and Social Entity = 167
Part Ⅰ : The Creation of the Urban Environment
(9) The Political Economy of the City-Building Process : Early Canadian Urban Development / Gilbert A. Stelter = 169
(10) The Invisible Hand : Market Forces, Housing and the Urban Form in Victorian Cities / Richard G. Rodger = 190
(11) Public Place and Private Space : The Victorian City and the Working-Class Household / M. J. Daunton = 212
(12) In Search of the Urban Variable : Britain in the Later Nineteenth Century / Anthony Sutcliffe = 234
Part Ⅱ : The Visible City
(13) The City as a Work of Art / Donald J. Olsen = 264
Part Ⅲ : Urban Society
(14) The Middle Class and British Towns and Cities of the Industrial Revolution 1780 - 1870 / R. J. Morris = 286
(15) Urban Society and the Petty Bourgeoisie in Nineteenth - Century Britain / Geoffrey Crossick = 306
(16) The Architecture of Public and Private Life : English Middle - Class Society in a Provincial Town 1780 - 1850 / Leonore Davidoff and Catherine Hall = 326
Book Three : In Pursuit of Urban History = 347
Part Ⅰ : The Effort to Understand
(17) The City as a Natural System : Theories of Urban Society in Early Nineteenth Century Britain / Graeme Davison = 349
(18) Concepts in Context : Pursuing the Urban of 'Urban' Sociology / R. E. Pahl = 371
(19) The management of Multiple Urban Images / Sam Bass Warner, Jr. = 383
Part Ⅱ : The Practice of Urban History
(20) The French Approach to Urban History : An Assessment of Recent Methodological Trends / F. Bedarida = 395
(21) In Pursuit of Urban History : Conversations with Myself and Other - A View from the United States / Bruce M. Stave = 407
(22) The Future of Urban History / Theodore Hershberg = 428
(23) An Urban History Horoscope / S. G. Checkland = 449
Notes on Contributors = 467
Index = 471
