Cities and the Circulation of Culture in the Atlantic World : From the Early Modern to Modernism /: From the Early Modern to Modernism. ([2017])
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- Book
- Title:
- Cities and the Circulation of Culture in the Atlantic World : From the Early Modern to Modernism /: From the Early Modern to Modernism. ([2017])
- Main Title:
- Cities and the Circulation of Culture in the Atlantic World : From the Early Modern to Modernism
- Further Information:
- Note: Leonard von Morzé, editor.
- Editors:
- Von Morzé, Leonard, 1975-
- Contents:
- Cities and the Circulation of Culture in the Atlantic World; Acknowledgments; Contents; About this Book; List of Figures; 1 Introduction; Notes; Part I Spatial Organization in the Early Modern Atlantic; 2 Invisible Cities: Natural and Social Space in Colonial Brazil; The Invisible Cities of Coastal Brazil; The vila and the aldeia; The Imperial Revenge of the Amerindian World; Notes; 3 Courtly Ceremonies and a Cultural Urban Geography of Power in the Habsburg Spanish Empire; The City as Theater of Royal Ceremony and Stage for the Exercise of Kingly Power; The King's Body and Royal Ceremony Kingly Ceremony and Imperial LegitimacyBaroque Modernity, the Atlantic, and the Spanish Empire; Notes; 4 Pirates, Politicians, and Urban Intellectuals: Toward a Cultural History of the Atlantic Frontier; i; ii; Notes; Part II Figures of the Circulating Self; 5 "Blazing Effects": The 1605 Gunpowder Treason and the Rhetoric of Slave Conspiracy; The Imagery of Treason: Catholic Conspiracy and the Geography of Gunpowder; Atlantic Commemoration and Gunpowder Plots; Notes; 6 Circling the Squares: City-Building in Benjamin Franklin's Autobiography; Boston; Philadelphia I: Going Round the Town Round-Trip to LondonPhiladelphia II: Circulating an Urban Personality; Interstices: The Grids of Virtuous Improvement; Philadelphia III: Circulation and the Urban Grid; Circulation and Composition; Conclusion: Toward Perpetual Motion; Notes; 7 Atlantic Thinking in Jane Austen's Novels; Notes; Part IIICities and the Circulation of Culture in the Atlantic World; Acknowledgments; Contents; About this Book; List of Figures; 1 Introduction; Notes; Part I Spatial Organization in the Early Modern Atlantic; 2 Invisible Cities: Natural and Social Space in Colonial Brazil; The Invisible Cities of Coastal Brazil; The vila and the aldeia; The Imperial Revenge of the Amerindian World; Notes; 3 Courtly Ceremonies and a Cultural Urban Geography of Power in the Habsburg Spanish Empire; The City as Theater of Royal Ceremony and Stage for the Exercise of Kingly Power; The King's Body and Royal Ceremony Kingly Ceremony and Imperial LegitimacyBaroque Modernity, the Atlantic, and the Spanish Empire; Notes; 4 Pirates, Politicians, and Urban Intellectuals: Toward a Cultural History of the Atlantic Frontier; i; ii; Notes; Part II Figures of the Circulating Self; 5 "Blazing Effects": The 1605 Gunpowder Treason and the Rhetoric of Slave Conspiracy; The Imagery of Treason: Catholic Conspiracy and the Geography of Gunpowder; Atlantic Commemoration and Gunpowder Plots; Notes; 6 Circling the Squares: City-Building in Benjamin Franklin's Autobiography; Boston; Philadelphia I: Going Round the Town Round-Trip to LondonPhiladelphia II: Circulating an Urban Personality; Interstices: The Grids of Virtuous Improvement; Philadelphia III: Circulation and the Urban Grid; Circulation and Composition; Conclusion: Toward Perpetual Motion; Notes; 7 Atlantic Thinking in Jane Austen's Novels; Notes; Part III Imagined Cities and Atlantic Modernism; 8 Open Doors, Closed Spaces: The Transatlantic Imaginary in American City Writing from Postrevolutionary Literature to Modernism; Introduction: Toward an Aesthetics of Cross-Atlantic Mapmaking; From Open City to Shrinking City The Labyrinthine Aesthetics of the Walking CityOpen Doors and Walled Streets: Atlantic Cities as Imagined Landscapes; Conclusion; Notes; 9 English-Canadian Actresses and the Multiple Networks of the Urban Atlantic, 1890s-1920s; Notes; 10 A Museum is Born: Albert-Charles Wulffleff and the Parc-Musée of Dakar, 1936; Introduction; Knowledge; History; Art Deco; Souvenir Africain; Collections; Colonial Expositions; But First, a Palace; Epilogue; Notes; General Index; Index Of City Names … (more)
- Publisher Details:
- New York : Palgrave Macmillan
- Publication Date:
- 2017
- Copyright Date:
- 2017
- Extent:
- 1 online resource (xiv, 266 pages)
- Subjects:
- 909.09821000903
Literature
Cities and towns -- Atlantic Ocean Region -- History
Civilization, Modern
HISTORY / World
Cities and towns
Civilization
Civilization, Modern
International relations
Literary Criticism -- American -- General
History -- United States -- General
Literary Criticism -- General
Literature: history & criticism
History of the Americas
Literary studies: from c 1900
Literary studies: general
European literature
Literature, Modern
Literary Criticism -- European -- General
Atlantic Ocean Region -- Civilization
Atlantic Ocean Region -- Relations
Atlantic Ocean Region
Electronic books
Electronic books
History - Languages:
- English
- ISBNs:
- 9781137526069
1137526068 - Related ISBNs:
- 1137541296
9781137541291 - Notes:
- Note: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
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