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Introduction: what was liberal modernity in Britain and why was it peculiar? / Simon Gunn and James Vernon -- Macaulay: a liberal historian? / Catherine Hall -- Freedom rules/colonial fractures: bringing "free" labor to Trinidad in the age of revolution / James Epstein -- "Free labour = latent pauperism": Marx, Mayhew, and the "reserve army of labour" in mid-nineteenth-century London / John Seed -- Secrecy and liberal modernity in Victorian and Edwardian England / Tom Crook -- Was there a liberal historicism? / Thomas Osborne -- Habits, instincts, survivals: repetition, history, biopower / Tony Bennett -- Entertainmentality! liberalizing modern pleasure in the Victorian leisure industry / Peter Bailey -- Same difference? liberalism, modernity, and governance in British India / Gavin Rand -- Paternalism, class, and the British path to modernity / Jon Lawrence -- Government and the modern management of information, 1844-2009 / David Vincent -- Liberty and ecology: resources, markets, and the British contribution to the global environmental crisis / Chris Otter -- Stories we tell about liberal markets: the efficient market hypothesis and great-men narratives of change / Mary Poovey

What difference do cities make? How the urban – and place more generally – have contributed to historical processes is one of the questions that continually confront urban historians. Should towns and cities be regarded as no more than the backdrop against which events and developments – industrialization, social conflict, war – are played out? Or do cities and urbanism more widely possess agency? Do they (as many urbanists claim) have an active part to play in shaping how historical processes eventuate, why things happened in this way here and that way there? If so, what precisely is the urban variable; how can we define and estimate it?

Europe's history since 1945 has most commonly been seen through the prism of international politics and economic change, from post-war reconstruction to late twentieth-century deindustrialisation. Urban history has been tangential to these accounts. Hence Leif Jerram's call to arms in his bookStreetlife, published in 2011: 'it is time to put thewhereinto thewhatandwhyof history'. The history of Europe's twentieth century, Jerram declared, happened 'in the streets and factories, cinemas and nightclubs, housing estates and suburbs, offices and living rooms, shops and swimming baths of Europe's booming cities'.

Resumen¿Qué pueden aportar las conclusiones extraídas de la historia urbana a la teoría urbana o, de forma más general, a los estudios urbanos? Este artículo se centra en el concepto de poder y analiza cómo se han aplicado distintos modelos de poder en la historia urbana (fundamentalmente, en este caso, en la historia moderna de Europa y Norteamérica) a lo largo de los últimos veinte años. Trata de mostrar más concretamente cómo las aproximaciones post-foucaultianas al concepto de poder han empezado a desestabilizar las viejas formas de hacer historia y a promover otras nuevas. El artículo va más allá, y sugiere que estas concepciones históricas del poder, especialmente en su forma más experimental adoptada en los trabajos de Chandra Mukerji y Patrick Joyce entre otros, ofrecen aproximaciones empíricas y teóricas de considerable interés para los estudios urbanos en general, para la comprensión de aspectos como la gobernanza, las redes de infraestructuras y el estado.Palabras clave: Poder, gubernamentalidad, red, infraestructura, estado, historia urbana.AbstractWhat might understandings drawn from urban history have to say to urban theory and to urban studies more generally? This article takes the concept of power as its centrepiece and examines how changing models of power have been applied to urban history (primarily, in this case, the modern history of Europe and North America) over the last twenty years. It attempts to show how post-Foucaultian approaches to power, in particular, have begun to unsettle older histories and to instigate new ones. The article goes on to suggest that these historical conceptions of power, particularly in their more experimental guise in the work of Chandra Mukerji and Patrick Joyce among others, offer empirical and theoretical approaches that are of considerable interest to urban studies more generally in understanding topics such as governance, infrastructure networks and the state.Keywords: Power, governmentality, network, infrastructure, state, urban history.

The article considers the relationship between the middle class and urban place in England. Using the concept of identity, it examines changes in the meaning of the term 'middle class' between the late eighteenth and the mid-twentieth century and how these changes were related to the configuration of urbanity. In the earlier twentieth century, it is argued, state and nation replaced the urban as the principal referent for middle-class identity.