The City and the Process of Transition from Early Modern Times to the Present
Contributors: Wiśniewska, Dorota; Ziątkowski, Leszek
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publisher
Published: 2019
Place of publication: Newcastle-upon-Tyne
Language: eng
Number of pages: 237
ISBN-13: 9781527539631
Subjects: Urbanization; Cities and towns; Growth; History
Description: In 2017, during a conference held at the Historical Institute of the University of Wrocław, Poland, an international group of early career researchers and PhD students had the opportunity to discuss the process of transition in cities from early modern times to the present day. This book, arising from the discussions of that meeting, focuses on the social, economic, political and structural transformations of some cities in Europe, the Near East and Asia from the seventeenth century up to the contemporary era. The first part of the text, entitled ""Facing the Other: Perception, Relations, (Co).