Andrew Lees (New Jersey Rutgers University), Lynn Hollen Lees (University of Pennsylvania)

Gebundenes Buch

Cities and the Making of Modern Europe, 1750-1914

Beschreibung

This book is a major survey of urbanization and the making of modern Europe from the mid-eighteenth century to the First World War. It explores the causes, course and consequences of the urban explosion Europe experienced during these years, linking urban growth to industrialization, migration, and the growth of colonial empires.

Autor

Andrew Lees is Professor of History at the Camden Campus of Rutgers University. He is the author of Cities Perceived: Urban Society in European and American Thought, 1820-1940 (1985) and Cities, Sin and Social Reform in Imperial Germany (2002).

Produktdetails

• New Approaches to European History
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 316
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. August 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 630g
• ISBN-13: 9780521839365
• ISBN-10: 052183936X
• Artikelnr.: 22782786