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11 lip 2017 · Cities — with their comparatively large and dense but also vulnerable populations — went from being theaters of mass mobilization in favor of the political status quo to being sites of domestic hardship and conflict and, in several cases, stages for the performance of political revolution.
31 lip 2018 · This chapter examines how city streets across the United States became a key site in controlling and mobilising citizens during the First World War. Mass immigration and unfettered capitalist development in the nineteenth century had ensured that urban areas were...
2 kwi 2013 · This introductory article first discusses the value and problems of a comparative approach to the history of cities and a number of the core themes and questions that need to be explored. It then presents a schematic overview of the main trends in urban development from early times to the present.
21 cze 2024 · Urbanization, the process by which large numbers of people become permanently concentrated in relatively small areas, forming cities. Whatever the numerical definition of an ‘urban place,’ it is clear that the course of human history has been marked by a process of accelerated urbanization.
Although there were a few cities as early as 4000 B.C., the cities of the ancient world were generally small and had to be supported by much larger rural populations. "Urbanized societies," in which a high proportion of the population lives in cities, developed only in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The process of
Urban history is a rich subfield of historical scholarship that examines life in urban spaces, how communities within cities interact and coexist, as well as the process of city formation and urbanization.
The Oxford Handbook of Cities in World History offers a detailed comparative study of urban development from ancient times to the present day. The book explores not only the main trends in the growth of cities and towns across the world — in Asia and the Middle East, Europe, Africa, and the Americas — and the different types of cities from ...
