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List of contents
Contents: Preface; The spatial turn: changing histories of space and place, Simon Gunn; Authority, urban development and the representation of the past: Introduction; Classified urban spaces: who owns the history of Helsinki South Harbour?, Anja Kervanto Nevanlinna; Deciding where to draw the line: urban strategies and the Vieux-Port of Marseille during the Second World War, Sheila Crane; One Cyprus or many? Turkish Cypriot history in Nicosia, Nergis Canefe; ’Race’, ethnicity and urban place: Introduction; Racial boundaries in a frontier town: St. Louis on the eve of the American Civil War, Barbara Burlison Mooney; Space, race and identity in the Pueblo of Los Angeles, Diane Y. Ghirardo; The zone of the other: imposing and resisting alien identities in Chapeltown, Leeds, during the 20th century, Max Farrar; Contesting public space: gender, sexuality and class: Introduction; Boundaries and identities in the 19th-century English port: sailortown narratives and urban space, Valerie Burton; The battle of the boulevards: class, gender and the purpose of public space in later Victorian Liverpool, Krista Cowman; For whose convenience? Gay guides, cognitive maps and the construction of homosexual London 1917-1967, Matt Houlbrook; Spaces for leisure: Introduction; ’Roughs of both sexes’: the working class in Victorian museums and art galleries, Kate Hill; Bourgeois strategies of distinction. Leisure culture and the transformations of urban space: the Hague, 1850-1890, Jan-Hein Furnée; Policing the Alameda: shared and contested leisure in San Sebastián, c.1863-1920, John K. Walton; Index.
Summary
This title was first published in 2001. A collection of 14 essays concerned with the historical relationship between social identity and urban social history. The volume deals with the ways in which urban spaces have been shaped historically by conflicts over access and use, and how the identities of social groups have themselves been forged in those conflicts.
