Living in the City

Leo Lucassen is Professor of Social History at Leiden University. He is a member of the Academia Europaea and has published extensively on migration, integration, urban history and state formation. Wim Willems is Professor of Social History at Leiden University. He has created a stir with his autobiographical stories, including Stadskind. Kroniek van een naoorlogse jeugd (City Child. Chronicle of a Postwar Youth) and Stadsblues. Kroniek van de jaren zestig (City Blues. Chronicle of the Sixties).

Introduction: Cities, Institutions and Migration in the Low Countries. Leo Lucassen and Wim Willems 1. Urbanisation in the European Middle Ages: Phases of Openness and Occlusion. Wim Blockmans 2. The Desired Stranger. Attraction and Expulsion in the Medieval City. Marc Boone 3. The Dutch ‘City Republics’: Guilds, Militias and Civic Politics. Maarten Prak 4. ‘City Air Sets You Free’: Autonomy and Rivalry in the Early Modern Northern Netherlands. Marjolein ‘t Hart and Manon van der Heijden 5. Employment, Education and Social Assistance: The Economic Attraction of Early Modern Cities. Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk 6. The Literary Image of the City: From the Middle Ages until the End of the Nineteenth Century. Herman Pleij, Lia van Gemert and Marita Mathijsen 7. The Hague, City of Wealth: Urban Governance and Culture in the Nineteenth Century. Jan Hein Furnée 8. The Modern City: Migration, Social Control and Planning, 1850-Present. Dirk Jan Wolffram 9. The City and the Art of Earning: Cultural Industries in the Twentieth-Century Netherlands. Michaël Deinema and Robert Kloosterman 10. Why Cities Prosper As Deltas: The Urbanisation of the Eurodelta. Luuk Boelens and Ed Taverne 11. Why People Want to Live in the City: Looking Back. Leo Lucassen and Wim Willems Notes on Contributors Bibliography Index