Micro-geographies of the Western City, c.1750–1900

Alida Clemente is Lecturer and Assistant Professor of Economic History at the University of Foggia. She has published on urban and regional economic history of the Mediterranean between the 17th and the 19th centuries, with special regard to fisheries, luxury consumption, and famines. Dag Lindström is Professor of History at Uppsala University. He has published on urban social and cultural history, history of crime, craft guilds, leisure culture and unmarried adults. Jon Stobart is Professor of history at Manchester Metropolitan University. He has published on a range of topics with retailing and consumption during the 18th century, including second-hand trade, groceries, shopping practices and the supply and material culture of the country house.

1. Introduction Part 1: Houses and Households: Spaces, Practices, and Representations 2. Toronto’s Early Apartment Houses: A Micro-Geography 3. The Brilliant Idea of the Book-Keeper Johan Peter Frisk: A Micro-Historical Study 4. The Shop and the Home: Commercial and Domestic Space in 18th-Century England 5. Representing a Disreputable House Part 2: Streets and Pavements: Sociability, Improvement, and Conflict 6. Sidewalks and Alignment of the Streets: The Gap between Large-Scale Planning and the Building-Scale in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries (Brussels-Paris) 7. Liberalism Underfoot: A Micro-Geography of Street Paving and Social Dissolution – Brunswick Avenue, Toronto, Ontario, 1898–99 8. Policing Stockholm’s Filth: Flows to Fixedness, 1776–1836 9. Representing the ‘Other’ Berlin, c. 1900: Micro-geographies of the Proletarian City Part 3: Neighbourhoods: Networks, Spaces, and Identities 10. Public Houses and Hidden Networks: Roles of Women in Mid-19th-Century Montreal 11. The Micro-Geography of Political Meeting Places in Manchester and Sheffield c.1780-1850 12. Trouble at the Edge of Town: Policing Montreal’s Urban Periphery in the Middle of the 19th Century 13. Conclusions