New Approaches to Governance and Rule in Urban Europe Since 1500
Urban power and politics are topics of abiding interest for students of the city. This exciting collection of essays explores how Europes cities have been governed across the last 500 years. Taken as a whole, it provides a unique historical overview of urban politics in early modern and modern Europe. At the same time, it guides the reader through the variety of ways in which power and governance are currently understood by historians and new directions in the subject.
The essays are wide-ranging, covering Europe from Scandinavia to the Mediterranean, Russia to Ireland, between 1500 and the twentieth century. Each chapter employs a specific case-study to illuminate a way of examining how power worked in regard to topics such as women, popular culture or urban elites. A variety of approaches are deployed, including the study of ritual and performance, morality and conduct, governmentality and the state, infrastructure and the individual.
Reflecting the state of the art in European urban history, the book is essential reading for anyone interested in the study of urban politics and government. It represents a fresh take on a rich subject and will stimulate a new generation of historical studies of power and the city.
Simon Gunn is Professor of Urban History at the University of Leicester.
Tom Hulme is Lecturer in the School of Anthropology, History, Philosophy and Politics at Queens University, Belfast.
Routledge Advances in Urban History
Series Editors
Bert De Munck (Centre for Urban History, University of Antwerp) and Simon Gunn (Centre for Urban History, University of Leicester)
This series showcases original and exciting new work in urban history. It publishes books that challenge existing assumptions about the history of cities, apply new theoretical frames to the urban past, and open up new avenues of historical enquiry. The scope of the series is global, and it covers all time periods from the ancient to the modern worlds.
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New Approaches to Governance and Rule in Urban Europe Since 1500
Edited by Simon Gunn and Tom Hulme
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New Approaches to Governance and Rule in Urban Europe Since 1500
Edited by Simon Gunn and Tom Hulme
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Names: Gunn, Simon, 1954 editor. | Hulme, Tom, editor.
Title: New approaches to governance and rule in urban Europe since 1500 / edited by Simon Gunn and Tom Hulme.
Description: New York : Routledge, 2020. | Series: Routledge advances in urban history ; 7 | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2020004044 (print) | LCCN 2020004045 (ebook) | ISBN 9780367462185 (hardback) | ISBN 9781003028390 (ebook) | ISBN 9781000062755 (adobe pdf) | ISBN 9781000062762 (mobi) | ISBN 9781000062779 (epub)
Subjects: LCSH: Municipal governmentEuropeHistoryCase studies. | Urban policyEuropeHistoryCase studies. | Cities and townsEuropeHistoryCase studies.
Classification: LCC JS3000 .N48 2020 (print) | LCC JS3000 (ebook) | DDC 320.8/5094dc23
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Contents
SIMON GUNN AND TOM HULME
PART I
Elites, Institutions and Civil Society
JUSTIN COLSON
RICHARD J. BUTLER
MARKIAN PROKOPOVYCH
PART II
Behaviour and the Governing of Morality
MARION PLUSKOTA
STEFAN COUPERUS AND DIRK JAN WOLFFRAM
PART III
Urban Rituals and the Performance of Power
BRUNO BONOMO
TANJA VAHTIKARI
PART IV
Governmentality and the State
GAYLE LONERGAN AND KUZMA KUKUSHKIN
TOM HULME
LVARO SEVILLA-BUITRAGO
PART V
Beyond Foucault: New Narratives for Urban Governance
MORITZ FLLMER
SIMON GUNN
Guide
This book is part of a series, conceived and composed in the context of the Scientific Research Community (WOG) Urban Agency: Setting the research agenda of urban history (20112015). The network was launched by the Centre for Urban History at the University of Antwerp, and supported by the most important centres for urban history in Europeincluding the Centre for Urban History at the University of Leicester, the History Department at TU Darmstadt, and the Centre for Historical Research into Urban Transformations (HOST) at the Free University of Brussels.
The network set out to analyse what we first called the urban variable. The idea was to examine the urban nature of major societal transformations, focusing in particular on the question whether and how the city really matters. Do cities have an agency of their own or can all historical transformations ultimately be reduced to the agency of actors and actor groups within cities, or, indeed, to historical forces beyond citieslike the unfolding of capitalism? It was clear from the outset that the answer generally given to this question is deeply rooted in the European history of the discipline itself. Both urban studies and urban history are steeped in a type of sociology in which the views on urbanisation are fundamentally entangled with narratives of modernity.
