Urban boundaries and margins : Urban History Group 2008 conference

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Sujet

boundary, limite, espace urbain, histoire urbaine, exclusion, société urbaine

Description

From the conference report :

The fortieth meeting of the Urban History Group was held in Rutland Hall at the University of
Nottingham on 27–28 March 2008. With over seventy delegates attending, the conference featured two days of seminars, discussion and socialising, all focussed on the subject of ‘Urban Boundaries and Margins’.

Papers available as full text :

M. Abraham - The summary courts and attitudes towards non lethal violence during the period 1887 - 1931 in Northampton and Nottingham B. Anderson - The Manchester Ramblers' Federation and urban/rural interaction, c1929 - 1936 Philip Baker - Parishes, parishiones and peripheries : Residence and status in early modern London Laura Balderstone - Semi-detached Britain? An analysis of social networks in outer fringe suburbia 1950 - 2005 V. Bickford-Smith - Creating South African green zones : Antiquarian history and the creation of urban boundaries in white South African imagination, 1940s to 1970s B. Bonomo - A shifting boundary : Domestic and public space in middle-class Rome, c1945 - 1973 A. Brown May - Lock up your roosters : City noises, public spaces, urban boundaries A. Buffa - Images of the Bronx and Naples : The media, the margins, and urban struggles, 1970s - 1980s C. Casson - Forgery in the market place : A study of six medieval English towns M. Dorey - Lewd, idle people selling corrupt, unwholesome food? The construction of street hawkers as the corruptive other in 17th century London records M. Flanagan - Pushing women to the margins in the patriarchal city : Chicago, Toronto, Dublin, and London, 1870s - 1940s J. Furnee - Ballots and boundaries. Social clubs and cultural associations in nineteenth-century The Hague B. Heller - Perception and practice of boundaries in London recreation, 1760 - 1820 Z. Kiss - Boundaries of the public scene : The case of Hungray in the 1860s R. Laitinen - The toll border and defining the urban in a seventeenth-century Swedish town C. LeThomas - Beyond the margins : Picasso and company in Montmartre R. Reichard - Curbs : Environmental control, social control M. Storey - Rural life and urbanisation in nineteenth century America : Urbanism beyond the city R. Verbruggen - Globalisation and city networks in late medieval and early modern Europe Ian West - Dawn on our darkness : Shining artificial light on early 19th century urban life V. Wolcott - Violence and racial boundaries : Recreation riots in post-WWII U.S. cities

Créateur

Multiple authors

Éditeur

Urban History Group

Date

27 - 28 March 2008

Format

Various

Type

Autre

Identifiant

http://www2.le.ac.uk/departments/urbanhistory/uhg/past-conferences/copy_of_2008