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Throughout history, marriage has been used as a method of creating and strengthening bonds between society's ruling elites. Nowhere is this more apparent than in early modern Venice, where members of the urban patrician class looked to marital alliances to help maintain their position and social distinction in a fluid society. This book explores these social relationships and the ways in which they were mediated through the links created by marriage. It looks at the changing composition of the Venetian ruling elite during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, examining the complex relationship between the patrician class and the rest of society.

By the end of the nineteenth century Paris was widely acknowledged as the cultural capital of the world; Edinburgh by contrast may still be thought of as a rather staid city of lawyers and Presbyterian ministers, academics and doctors. Yet despite this apparent cultural opposition, Professor Reynolds argues that in fact both cities shared a number of similar concerns and ideals that were fostered and developed by growing links and international travel. This book seeks not to treat Paris-Edinburgh links in isolation, or to exaggerate them, but to use them to provide a fresh perspective on the internationalism of the Belle Epoque.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- General Editors' Preface -- List of Tables -- List of Abbreviations -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1 The City in British History -- 2 Civic Rivalry: Manchester and the Quest for City Status, 1836-88 -- 3 Civic Pride: Towns into Cities, 1888-1914 -- 4 Civic Status and Civic Promotion: the Inter-War Years -- 5 Politicians and City Status, 1945-69 -- 6 Boosting the Town, Selling the City, 1970-2000 -- 7 The Millennium Competition -- 8 The Golden Jubilee Competition, 2002 -- Conclusion -- Appendix: United Kingdom Cities in 2002 -- Bibliography and references -- Index

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- General Editors' Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Part I Market Spaces and Urban Structure -- 1 Orbem in Urbe Vidimus... -- Towards a topography of trade in the early modern city -- Studying the configuration of space -- The notion of portus: a permanent square -- Order amidst mixed uses -- Thousands of variations: the transmission of models -- Long-term reform -- The 'longue durée' and architectural history -- 2 The 'Ease of Provisioning' -- Site and images -- The market insula -- The bridge with shops -- Physical discontinuity, chronological continuity -- 3 The Market in the City -- At the beginning, on the outskirts -- Venice -- Paris -- Nuremberg -- Elsewhere, in the centre -- Augsburg -- Lübeck -- Little by little, greater articulation -- Venice, once again -- Florence -- Antwerp -- Amsterdam -- The diffused model -- Seville -- London -- Diversity, fragmentation, form -- 4 Disorder and Mixed Use: The Concept of 'Boundary' -- Norms and increasing trade -- Interference and interplay: stands, shops, houses -- Ownership and conflicts of interest -- The culture of the square and its image -- Legal and physical boundaries -- Part II Commercial Buildings: Use and Form -- 5 The Regularity of the Square -- The square's geometry and the 'line' of shops -- Venice: San Giacomo at Rialto -- Florence: the Uffizi and the corridor -- Genoa and Piazza Banchi -- Seville and the problem of the plaza mayor -- 6 Some Buildings -- Covered markets, halles, draperies -- The Halle aux Draps -- The Fabbriche Vecchie -- The Clothworkers' Hall -- Bread, meat, fish, fruit and vegetables -- Along the banks of the Grand Canal -- In the centre of Florence -- In the cities of Spain -- In the city of London -- Banks, business and the bourse

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of figures -- List of tables -- Notes on contributors -- Acknowledgements -- General editors' preface -- Preface -- 1 Body and city: medical and urban histories of public health -- 2 Ritual and public health in the early medieval city -- 3 Languages of plague in early modem France -- 4 Copenhagen 1711: Danish authorities facing the plague -- 5 Fighting for public health: Dr Duncan and his adversaries, 1847-63 -- 6 Town Hall and Whitehall: sanitary intelligence in Liverpool, 1840-63 -- 7 Working-class experiences, cholera and public health reform in nineteenth-century Switzerland -- 8 Public health discourses in Birmingham and Gothenburg, 1890-1920 -- 9 Choices for town councillors in nineteenth-century Britain: investment in public health and its impact on mortality -- 10 Economics and infant mortality decline in German towns, 1889-1912: household behaviour and public intervention -- 11 The decline of the urban penalty: milk supply and infant welfare centres in Germany, 1890s-1920s -- Index

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Historical Urban Studies General Editors' Preface -- Preface -- Contributors -- 1 Governance: two centuries of urban growth -- 2 Urban governance: some reflections -- 3 The 'decline' of British urban governance since 1850: a reassessment -- 4 Urban government, finance and public health in Victorian Britain -- 5 The role and influence of Glasgow's municipal managers, 1890s-1930s -- 6 Urban governance in Montreal and Toronto in a period of transition -- 7 A spirit of improvement: improvement commissioners, boards of health and central-local relations in Portsea -- 8 Expediency, authority and duplicity: reforming Sheffield's police, 1832-40 -- 9 Politics, ideology and the governance of health care in Sheffield before the NHS -- 10 French local authorities and the challenge of industrial pollution, c. 1810-1917 -- 11 A paradigm of inaction? The politics and un-politics of smoke abatement legislation in Stockport, 1844-56 -- 12 Industrial conciliation, class co-operation and the urban landscape in mid-Victorian England -- 13 The search for legitimacy: universities, medical licensing bodies and governance in Glasgow and Edinburgh from the late eighteenth to the late nineteenth centuries -- 14 Ownership of the place of burial: a study of early nineteenth-century urban conflict in Britain -- 15 Ritual and civic culture in the English industrial city, c. 1835-1914 -- 16 The management of urban public spaces: Shahjahanabad, New Delhi, Greater Delhi, 1857-1997 -- Index

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- General Editors' Preface -- Introduction -- 1 Corruption and urban governance -- Part I: Locating Corruption: Language and the Respectable -- 2 Scandals: a tentative overview -- 3 Corrupt and corporate bodies: attitudes to corruption in eighteenth-century and early nineteenth-century towns -- 4 'Getting away with it' or 'punishment enough'?: The problem of 'respectable' crime from 1830 -- Part II: Managing Corruption: Attitudes and Ethics -- 5 Corruption and scandal in the port of Liverpool -- 6 Municipal corruption and political partisanship in Manchester 1885-95 -- 7 'Ingenious and daring': the Wolverhampton Council fraud 1905-17 -- 8 The dramas of local government: personal ethics and public service in Winifred's Holtby's South Riding -- 9 Rotten boroughs: the crisis of urban policing and the decline of municipal independence 1914-64 -- Index