Living in the city [electronic resource] : urban institutions in the Low Countries, 1200-2010 / edited by Leo Lucassen and Wim Willems.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [227]-251) and index.

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 Furnãaee -- 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 / Michaáeel 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

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