What Is Urban History?
In: What Is History? Ser.
Intro -- Series page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Why Urban History? -- Notes -- 1: The Development of Urban History -- Urban History at the Turn of the Twentieth Century -- Urban History in North America: The Growth of an Interdisciplinary Phenomenon -- The 'Dyos Phenomenon' in Britain -- Ways of Doing Urban History -- The 'Cultural Turn' in Urban History -- An 'Urban Turn' Eastwards -- Notes -- 2: Cities, Spaces and Identities -- Class, Space and the Suburban Ideal -- Suburbia as Gendered Space -- Poverty, Ethnicity and Gender in the Making of the 'Slum' -- Notes -- 3: Governing Cities -- Urban Government and the Social Composition of Elites -- From Government to Governance -- From Governance to Governmentality -- Notes -- 4: Cities and the Environment -- Varieties of Environmental History -- Ploughing the Urban Field -- From the City Sink to the City Monument -- Standing at the Crossroads -- Notes -- 5: Urban Culture and Modernity -- Modernity and the Built Form -- The Street as a Site of Modernity -- The Experiential Nature of Urban Life -- Notes -- 6: Transnational Urban History -- Thinking about Transnationalism -- Locating the Transnational Variable in Urban History -- Notes -- Suggestions for Further Reading -- Chapter 1 The Development of Urban History -- Chapter 2 Cities, Spaces and Identities -- Chapter 3 Governing Cities -- Chapter 4 Cities and the Environment -- Chapter 5 Urban Culture and Modernity -- Chapter 6 Transnational Urban History -- Index -- End User License Agreement.