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"The dominance of economic repertories of value is a relatively new phenomenon, and one which directly correlates to the steady advent of capitalism in early modern Europe. This volume brings together scholars with expertise in a variety of related fields, including economic history, the history of consumption and material culture, art history, and the history of collecting, to explore changing concepts of value from the early modern period to the nineteenth century and present a new view on the advent of modern economic practices. Jointly, they fundamentally challenge traditional historical narratives about the rise of our contemporary market economy and consumer society"--

"Late medieval and early modern cities are often depicted as cradles of artistic creativity and hotbeds of new material culture. Cities in renaissance Italy and in seventeenth and eighteenth-century northwestern Europe are the most obvious cases in point. But, how did this come about? Why did cities rather than rural environments produce new artistic genres, new products and new techniques? How did pre-industrial cities evolve into centres of innovation and creativity? As the most urbanized regions of continental Europe in this period, Italy and the Low Countries provide a rich source of case studies, as the contributors to this volume demonstrate. They set out to examine the relationship between institutional arrangements and regulatory mechanisms such as citizenship and guild rules and innovation and creativity in late medieval and early modern cities. They analyze whether, in what context and why regulation or deregulation influenced innovation and creativity, and what the impact was of long-term changes in the political and economic sphere"--Provided by publisher

Regulating migration in early modern cities : an introduction / Bert De Munck and Anne Winter -- Repertoires of inclusion and exclusion : guilds and citizenship -- Migrant workers and illicit labour : regulating the immigration of building workers in sixteenth-century Antwerp / Jan De Meester -- Craft guilds and immigration : Huguenots in German and English cities / Ulrich Niggemann -- Heresy, war, vagrancy, and labour needs : dealing with temporary migrants in the textile towns of Flanders, Artois and Hainaut in the wake of the Dutch revolt (1566-1609) / Yves Junot -- Local categories of residence redefined : the former imperial city of Strasbourg and the politics of the French crown (1681-1789) / Hanna Sonkajärvi -- Instruments of regulation: policies and policing -- Who is not welcome? : reception and rejection of migrants in early modern Italian cities / Eleonora Canepari -- Immigration policy in eighteenth-century Trieste / Aleksej Kalc -- Urban police and the regulation of migration in eighteenth-century France / Vincent Milliot -- Crossing the lines : begging and poor relief -- Magistrates, beggars, and labourers : migration and regulation in sixteenth-century Ulm / Jason P. Coy -- Regulating urban migration and relief entitlements in eighteenth-century Brabant / Anne Winter -- Rough lives : autobiography and migration in eighteenth-century England / Tim Hitchcock -- Comparisons and conclusions -- Cities, states and migration control in western Europe : comparing then and now / Leo Lucassen

"Knowledge and the Early Modern City uses case studies from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries to examine the relationships between knowledge and the city and how these changed in a period when the nature and conception of both was drastically transformed. Providing the ideal starting point for those seeking to understand the role of urban institutions, actors and spaces in the production of knowledge and the development of the so-called 'modern' knowledge society, this is the perfect resource for students and scholars of early modern history and knowledge"--

Introduction : did cities change nature? : a long-term perspective / Tim Soens, Dieter Schott, Michael Toyka-Seid and Bert De Munck -- Long-term transitions, urban imprint and the construction of hinterlands / Sabine Barles and Martin Knoll -- Concepts of urban sgency and the transformation of urban hinterlands : the case of Berlin, eighteenth to twentieth centuries / Christoph Bernhardt -- A place in its own right : the rural-urban fringe of Helsinki from the early nineteenth century to the present / Marjaana Niemi -- Urbanizing water : looking beyond the transition to water modernity in the cities of the southern Low Countries, thirteenth to nineteenth centuries / Ellen Janssens and Tim Soens -- Cities hiding the forests : wood supply, hinterlands and urban agency in the southern Low Countries, thirteenth to eighteenth centuries / Paulo Charruadas and Chloé Deligne -- Energizing European cities : from wood provision to solar panels : providing energy for urban demand, 1800-2000 / Dieter Schott -- Re-use and recycling in Western European cities / Georg Stöger -- Hydraulic experts and the challenges of water in early modern times : European colonial cities compared / Karel Davids -- Stockholm's changing waterscape : a long-term perspective on a city and its flowing water / Eva Jakobsson -- Air pollution as urban problem in France, from the mid-nineteenth ventury to the 1970s / Stéphane Frioux -- Urban fringes : conquering riversides and lakeshores in the nineteenth century : examples from Austrian and Swiss medium-sized cities / Christian Rohr -- Twentieth century wastescapes : cities, consumers, and their dumping grounds / Heike Weber -- The roots of the sustainable city : the visible waters of the city in modern Mainz and Wiesbaden / Michael Toyka-Seid -- Beyond cities, beyond nature : building a European urban stratum / Chris Otter.

Cover; Half Title; Series; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Figures; Series Editors' Preface; Acknowledgments; Part I Introduction; Introduction: Did Cities Change Nature? A Long-Term Perspective; Part II Nature Into Urban Hinterlands; 1 Long-Term Transitions, Urban Imprint and the Construction of Hinterlands; 2 Concepts of Urban Agency and the Transformation of Urban Hinterlands: The Case of Berlin, Eighteenth to Twentieth Centuries; 3 A Place in Its Own Right: The Rural-Urban Fringe of Helsinki From the Early Nineteenth Century to the Present; Part III Nature as Urban Resource