Identities in space : contested terrains in the western city since 1850
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Identities in space : contested terrains in the western city since 1850
(Historical urban studies / series editors, Richard Rodger and Jean-Luc Pinol)
Ashgate, c2001
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Reflecting the growing interest of historians in space and location as objects of analysis, this book is about the historical relationship between urban space and social identity. In urban history there has long been concern with space and place, but recent interest has also been stimulated by specific aspects of postmodern thought deriving from the work of theorists such as Michel Foucault and Henri Lefebvre, as well as more generally from the burgeoning field of cultural geography. The essays in this book demonstrate the ways in which urban spaces have been shaped historically by conflicts over access and use, and how the identities of particular social groups have themselves been forged in those conflicts in western cities - such as London, Los Angeles, Marseilles, Liverpool, Nicosia and San Sebastian. The contributors include art, architectural and social historians, bringing a wide range of settings, contexts and approaches to the study of space and the city.
Table of Contents
- The spatial turn - changing histories of space and place, Simon Gunn. Part 1 Authority, urban development and the representation of the past: classified urban spaces - who owns the history of Helsinki South Harbour? Anja Nevanlinna
- deciding where to draw the line - urban strategies and the Vieux-Port of Marseille during Second World War, Sheila Crane
- one Cyprus or many? Turkish Cypriot history in Nicosia, Nergis Canefe. Part 2 "Race", ethnicity and urban place: racial boundaries in a frontier town - St. Louis on the eve of the American Civil War, Barbara Burlison Mooney
- space, race and identity in the Pueblo of Los Angeles, Diane Y. Ghirardo
- the zone of the other - imposing and resisting alien identities in Chapeltown, Leeds, during the twentieth century, Max Farrar. Part 3 Contesting public space - gender, sexuality and class: boundaries and identities in the 19th-century English port - sailortown narratives and urban space, Valerie Burton
- the battle of the boulevards - class, gender and the purpose of public space in later Victorian Liverpool, Krista Cowman
- for whose convenience? gay guides, cognitive maps and the construction of homosexual London, 1917-1967, Matt Houlbrook. Part 4 Spaces for leisure: "roughs of both sexes" - the working class in Victorian museums and galleries, Kate Hill
- bourgeois strategies of distinction. Leisure culture and transformations of urban space - the Hague, 1850-1890, Jan-Hein Furnee
- policing the Alameda - shared and contested leisure in San Sebastian, c. 1863-1920, John K. Walton.
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