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Testimonies of the City: Identity, Community and Change in a Contemporary Urban World
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Oral testimony is one of the most valuable but challenging sources for the study of modern history, providing access to knowledge and experience unavailable to historians of earlier periods. In this groundbreaking collection, oral testimonies are used to explore themes relating to the construction of urban memories in European cities during the twentieth century.

From the daily experiences of city life, to personal and communal responses to urban change and regeneration, to migration and the construction of ethnic identities, oral history is employed to enrich our understanding of urban history. It offers insights and perspectives that both enhance existing approaches and forces us to re-examine official histories based on more traditional sources of documentation. Moreover, it enables the historian to understand something of the nature of memory itself, and how people construct their own versions of the urban experience to try to make sense of the past.

By using the full range of opportunities offered by oral history, as well as fully considering the related methodological issues of interpretation, this volume provides a fascinating insight into one of the least explored areas of urban history. As well as adding to our understanding of the European urban experience, it highlights the potential of this intersection of oral and urban history.

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Testimonies of the City

Historical Urban Studies

Series editors: Richard Rodger and Jean-Luc Pinol

Titles in this series include:

Culture and Class in English Public Museums, 18501914
Kate Hill

European Cities, Youth and the Public Sphere in the Twentieth Century
Edited by Axel Schildt and Detlef Siegfried

City Status in the British Isles, 18302002
John Beckett

Resources of the City Contributions to an Environmental History of Modern Europe
Edited by Dieter Schott, Bill Luckin and Genevive Massard-Guilbaud

The European City and Green Space London, Stockholm, Helsinki and St Petersburg, 18502000
Edited by Peter Clark

Property, Tenancy and Urban Growth in Stockholm and Berlin, 18601920
Hkan Forsell

Civil Society, Associations and Urban Places Class, Nation and Culture in Nineteenth-Century Europe
Edited by Graeme Morton, Boudien de Vries and R.J. Morris

The Transformation of Urban Liberalism Party Politics and Urban Governance in Late Nineteenth-Century England
James R. Moore

Paris-Edinburgh Cultural Connections in the
Belle Epoque Sin Reynolds

The City and the Senses Urban Culture Since 1500
Edited by Alexander Cowan and Jill Steward

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Testimonies of the City

Identity, Community and Change in a Contemporary Urban World

Edited by

Richard Rodger

and

Joanna Herbert

First published 2007 by Ashgate Publishing

Published 2016 by Routledge
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British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data

Testimonies of the city: identity, community and change in a contemporary urban world. (Historical urban studies)

1.Sociology, Urban
I. Rodger, Richard II. Herbert, Joanna
307.7'6

ISBN: 978-07546-5560-2

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Testimonies of the city: identity, community, and change in a contemporary urban world / edited by Richard Rodger and Joanna Herbert.

p. cm. (Historical urban studies series)

Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN: 978-0-7546-5560-2 (alk. paper)

1. Cities and towns Europe History 20th century. 2. Social change Europe History 20th century. 3. Sociology, Urban Europe. 4. Oral history Europe. 5. Europe Social conditions 20th century. 6. Social history 20th century. I. Rodger, Richard. II. Herbert, Joanna. III. Series: Historical urban studies.

HT131.T474 2007
307.7609409'04 dc22

2006017123

ISBN: 9780754655602 (hbk)

Contents

Joanna Herbert and Richard Rodger

Ronnie Johnston and Arthur McIvor

Eszter Zsfia Tth

Sndor Horvth

Valentina Gulin Zrni

Leen Beyers

Caroline Varlet

Maria Raluca Popa

Vernica Sales Pereira

Ruth Wallach

Wladimir Fischer

Joanna Herbert

Historical Urban Studies General Editors Preface

Density and proximity are two of the defining characteristics of the urban dimension. It is these that identify a place as uniquely urban, although the threshold for such pressure points varies from place to place. What is considered an important cluster in one context may not be considered as urban elsewhere. A third defining characteristic is functionality the commercial or strategic position of a town or city that conveys an advantage over other places. Over time, these functional advantages may diminish, or the balance of advantage may change within a hierarchy of towns. To understand how the relative importance of towns shifts over time and space is to grasp a set of relationships that is fundamental to the study of urban history.

Towns and cities are products of history, yet they themselves have helped to shape history. As the proportion of urban dwellers has increased, so the urban dimension has proved a legitimate unit of analysis through which to understand the spectrum of human experience and to explore the cumulative memory of past generations. Though obscured by layers of economic, social and political change, the study of the urban milieu provides insights into the functioning of human relationships and, if urban historians themselves are not directly concerned with current policy studies, few contemporary concerns can be understood without reference to the historical development of towns and cities.

This longer historical perspective is essential to an understanding of social processes. Crime, housing conditions and property values, health and education, discrimination and deviance, and the formulation of regulations and social policies to deal with them were, and remain, among the perennial preoccupations of towns and cities no historical period has a monopoly of these concerns. They recur in successive generations, albeit in varying mixtures and strengths; the details may differ.

The central forces of class, power and authority in the city remain. If this was the case for different periods, so it was for different geographical entities and cultures. Both scientific knowledge and technical information were available across Europe and showed little respect for frontiers. Yet despite common concerns and access to broadly similar knowledge, different solutions to urban problems were proposed and adopted by towns and cities in different parts of Europe. This comparative dimension informs urban historians as to which factors were systematic and which were of a purely local nature: general and particular forces can be distinguished.

These analytical and comparative frameworks inform this book. Indeed, thematic, comparative and analytical approaches to the historical study of towns and cities is the hallmark of the Historical Urban Studies series, which now extends to over 30 titles, either already published or currently in production. European urban historiography has been extended and enriched as a result and this book makes another important addition to an intellectual mission to which we, as General Editors, remain firmly committed.

Richard Rodger, University of Leicester

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