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Queer sites: gay urban histories since 1600
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A history of gay space in seven of the world's major cities from the early modern period to the present. Describing gay space as an area with a significant gay/lesbian population, this collection of essays focuses on the changing nature of queer experience in London, Amsterdam, …
"This book offer a new account of the ancient cities of the Mediterranean world. We are used to thinking of Athens and Rome and Alexandria as great models of urbanism, and of the ancient world itself as a world of cities. In fact cities came late to this corner of Eurasia and we…
"This book offer a new account of the ancient cities of the Mediterranean world. We are used to thinking of Athens and Rome and Alexandria as great models of urbanism, and of the ancient world itself as a world of cities. In fact cities came late to this corner of Eurasia and we…
The study of early medieval towns has frequently concentrated on urban beginnings, the search for broadly applicable definitions of urban characteristics and the chronological development of towns. Far less attention has been paid to the experience of living in towns. The 13 cha…
"Les villes comme organismes politiques ont souvent été l'objet d'une répression spécifique de la part de leurs ennemis ou d'une autorité souveraine. Des mesures les plus symboliques, comme l'abattis des murailles, aux plus radicales, comme la réduction en esclavage des populati…
Les villes comme organismes politiques ont souvent été l'objet d'une répression spécifique de la part de leurs ennemis ou d'une autorité souveraine. Des mesures les plus symboliques, comme l'abattis des murailles, aux plus radicales, comme la réduction en esclavage des populatio…
"This volume explores the specificity of the urban culture in western Europe during the period c. 1150-1550. Since the mid-twentieth century, many studies have complicated the association, traditionally made, between the medieval growth of towns and the birth of a modern, secula…
