Living in the City : Urban Institutions in the Low Countries, 1200–2010 (Hardcover)

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 Furnee  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. Michael 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