City walls : the urban enceinte in global perspective
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Tracy, James D.
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Cambridge :
University Press,
2000.
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XIX, 697 p. : ill. |
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Studies in comparative early modern history
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Table of Contents |
Inhaltsangabe:
- Contained communities in tropical Africa. Graham Connah. - Palisaded settlements in prehistoric Eastern North America. George R. Milner. - To wall or not to wall: evidence from Medieval Germany. James D. Tracy. - Medieval walled space: urban development vs. defense. Kathryn L. Reyerson. - A world without walls: city and town in Colonial Spanish America. Richard L. Kagan. - The fortifications of Epaminondas and the rise of the monumental Greek city. Frederick A. Cooper. - Imperial walled cities in the West and their Early Medieval Nachleben. Bernard S. Bachrach. - Delhi walled: changing boundaries. Catherine B. Asher. - Walled cities in Islamic North Africa and Egypt (with particular reference to the Fatamids, 909-1171). Jonathan Bloom. - Ottoman military architecture in the early gunpowder era: a reassessment. Simon Pepper. - Walled towns during the French wars of religion, 1560-1630. Michael Wolfe. - Portuguese urban fortifications in Morocco: borrowing, adaptation, and innovation along a military frontier. Martin M. Elbl. - The artillery fortress as an engine of European overseas expansion, 1480-1750. Geoffrey Parker. - Representations of Chinese walled cities in the pictorial and graphic arts. Nancy Shatzman Steinhardt. - The hierarchy of Ming city walls. Edward L. Farmer. - Decoration of city walls in Medieval Islam: the epigraphic message. Sheila S. Blair. - Medieval French representations of city and other walls. Wolfgang G. van Emden. - Siege law, siege ritual, and the symbolism of city walls in Renaissance Europe. Simon Pepper. - Representations of the city in siege views of the seventeenth century: the war of military images and their production. Martha Pollak .
