Urbanization and the Pacific World, 1500–1900
Urbanization and the Pacific World, 1500–1900

Author: Lionel Frost

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2017-05-15

Total Pages: 665

ISBN-13: 1351876341

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Between 1500 and 1900 there was a constant growth in the numbers of large cities and networks of smaller towns throughout the Pacific world in which traders and primary producers did business. The essays in Urbanization and the Pacific World explore the increasingly complex economic relationships that connected cities in and around the Pacific world to each other, and pay particular attention to the impact that growing cities had on the economies of their hinterlands. The volume also contains articles that examine the problems that city growth created and the ways in which people were able to cope with them. Along with the new introduction, the essays cover all of the regions of the Pacific world in which city growth took place, and will allow the reader to consider a wide range of common and contrasting urban experiences.

Stockholm
Stockholm

Author: Thomas Hall

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2008-12-02

Total Pages: 241

ISBN-13: 1134298595

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This is the first history of Stockholm’s development from the city’s unique seventeenth-century redevelopment and extension to the postmodern, postindustrial trends of today. For much of the mid-twentieth century Stockholm was the planning model for Europe and elsewhere. Written by an acknowledged authority on the city and Swedish architecture and planning generally, this book provides a much needed explanation of one of Europe’s great cities.

Material Culture in Europe and China, 1400–1800
Material Culture in Europe and China, 1400–1800

Author: S.A.M. Adshead

Publisher: Springer

Published: 1997-09-12

Total Pages: 288

ISBN-13: 1349257621

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This book reinterprets the rise of consumerism in terms of interaction between Europe and China 1400-1800. In particular, it examines the intellectual foundations of consumerism in food, dress, shelter, utilities, information and symbolism. It highlights consumerism as an expression of both rationality and freedom and indicates the constructive role it has played in the formation of the modern world. Particular use is made of comparisons between developments in Europe and China to differentiate both.