Walled Towns and the Shaping of France - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Walled Towns and the Shaping of France write by Michael Wolfe. This book was released on 2009. Walled Towns and the Shaping of France available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book focuses on the ways in which military technology, political and social trends, and shifting frontiers shaped the emergence of new forms of public authority and civic life as embodied in the "wall," an image at once intensely physical and deeply symbolic. It traces the evolution of towns across much of what is today France from the Middle Ages to the eighteenth century when the walls began to come down, opening up new, ultimately revolutionary possibilities for urban life. This long-term perspective on town fortifications - how they were built, the contests to control them, and how they shaped the lives of people both inside and outside them - in the end tell us much about the making of France.
Walled Towns and the Shaping of France
Walled Towns and the Shaping of France - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Walled Towns and the Shaping of France write by M. Wolfe. This book was released on 2009-08-31. Walled Towns and the Shaping of France available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book focuses on the development of towns in France, taking into account military technology, physical geography, shifting regional networks tying urban communities together, and the emergence of new forms of public authority and civic life.
The Defortification of the German City, 1689-1866
The Defortification of the German City, 1689-1866 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Defortification of the German City, 1689-1866 write by Yair Mintzker. This book was released on 2012-07-09. The Defortification of the German City, 1689-1866 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book tells the story of German cities' metamorphoses from walled to defortified places between 1689 and 1866. Using a wealth of original sources, the book discusses one of the most significant moments in the emergence of the modern city: the dramatic and often traumatic demolition of the city's centuries-old fortifications and the creation of the open city.
Walls, Borders, Boundaries
Walls, Borders, Boundaries - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Walls, Borders, Boundaries write by Marc Silberman. This book was released on 2012-05-01. Walls, Borders, Boundaries available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. How is it that walls, borders, boundaries—and their material and symbolic architectures of division and exclusion—engender their very opposite? This edited volume explores the crossings, permeations, and constructions of cultural and political borders between peoples and territories, examining how walls, borders, and boundaries signify both interdependence and contact within sites of conflict and separation. Topics addressed range from the geopolitics of Europe’s historical and contemporary city walls to conceptual reflections on the intersection of human rights and separating walls, the memory politics generated in historically disputed border areas, theatrical explorations of border crossings, and the mapping of boundaries within migrant communities.
Borders and Freedom of Movement in the Holy Roman Empire
Borders and Freedom of Movement in the Holy Roman Empire - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Borders and Freedom of Movement in the Holy Roman Empire write by Luca Scholz. This book was released on 2020-01-16. Borders and Freedom of Movement in the Holy Roman Empire available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In the Holy Roman Empire 'no prince... can forbid men passage in the common road', wrote the English jurist John Selden. In practice, moving through one the most fractured landscapes in human history was rarely as straightforward as suggested by Selden's account of the German 'liberty of passage'. Across the Old Reich, mobile populations-from emperors to peasants-defied attempts to channel their mobility with actions ranging from mockery to bloodshed. In this study, Luca Scholz charts this contentious ordering of movement through the lens of safe conduct, an institution that was common throughout the early modern world but became a key framework for negotiating freedom of movement and its restriction in the Empire. Borders and Freedom of Movement in the Holy Roman Empire draws on sources discovered in twenty archives, from newly unearthed drawings to first-hand accounts by peasants, princes, and prisoners. Scholz's maps shift the focus from the border to the thoroughfare to show that controls of moving goods and people were rarely concentrated at borders before the mid-eighteenth century. Uncovering a forgotten chapter in the history of free movement, the author presents a new look at the unstable relationship of political authority and human mobility in the heartlands of old-regime Europe.
