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The city and the senses : urban culture since 1500
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- Creator
- edited by Alexander Cowan and Jill Steward
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2007]
- ©2007
- Series
- Physical Details
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- xiii, 245 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 0754605140, 9780754605140
- OCLC
- ocm63660704
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Introduction / Jill Steward and Alexander Cowan -- Stench in sixteenth-century Venice / Jo Wheeler -- 'Not carrying out the vile and mechanical arts' : touch as a measure of social distinction in early modern Venice / Alexander Cowan -- Speaking and listening in early modern London / Laura Wright -- Engineering vision in early modern Paris / Ulf Strohmayer -- Touching London : contact, sensibility, and the city / Ava Arndt -- Sewers and sensibilities : the bourgeois faecal experience in the nineteenth-century city / David Inglis -- 'We demand good and healthy beer' : the nutritional and social significance of beer for the lower classes in mid-nineteenth-century Munich / Kim Carpenter -- Boulevard culture and advertising as spectacle in nineteenth-century Paris / Hazel Hahn -- A taste of Vienna : food as a signifier of urban modernity in Vienna, 1890-1930 / Janet Stewart -- Seeing imperial Berlin : Lesser Ury, the painter as stranger / Dorothy Rowe -- Street noises : celebrating the liberation of Paris in music and dance / Rosemary Wakeman