Emotional Cities
Subtitle: Debates on Urban Change in Berlin and Cairo, 1860-1910
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: Nov 14, 2017
Language: eng
Format: hardcover
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780198797562
Description: Emotional Cities offers an innovative account of the history of cities in the second half of the nineteenth century. Analyzing debates about emotions and urban change, it questions the assumed dissimilarity of the history of European and Middle Eastern cities during this period. The author shows that between 1860 and 1910, contemporaries in both Berlin and Cairo began to negotiate the transformation of the urban realm in terms of emotions. Looking at the ways in which a variety of urban dwellers, from psychologists to bar maids, framed recent changes in terms of their effect on love, honor, or disgust, the book reveals striking parallels between the histories of the two cities. By combining urban history and the history of emotions, Prestel proposes a new perspective on the emergence of different, yet comparable cities at the end of the nineteenth century.
Notes: Source title: Emotional Cities: Debates on Urban Change in Berlin and Cairo, 1860-1910 (Emotions in History)