Memory, history, and autobiography in early modern towns in east and west / edited by Vanessa Harding, Kōichi Watanabe.
Material type: TextPublisher: Newcastle-upon-Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2015Description: 1 online resource (150 pages)Content type:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9781443881975
- 144388197X
- City and town life -- Europe, Western -- History
- City and town life -- East Asia -- History
- Europe, Western -- Social conditions
- East Asia -- Social conditions
- Europe, Western -- History
- East Asia -- History
- Vie urbaine -- Europe de l'Ouest -- Histoire
- Extrême-Orient -- Histoire
- Asian history
- Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700
- Social & cultural history
- SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology -- Urban
- Social conditions
- City and town life
- Cities and towns -- Social aspects
- Western Europe
- East Asia
- 1500-1899
- 307.7609 23
- HT111
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Between the sixteenth and the nineteenth centuries, in both Western Europe and East Asia, towns and cities helped to shape the individual consciousness, against the background of a more traditional society in which collective values remained strong. Towns were centres of stimulus, challenge, and opportunity for residents and visitors, and the identity of the town itself, its character and history, became a strong theme in the formation of the individual. Writing and the circulation of texts played an important part in this process. Towns created artefacts, rituals, and memories that embodied t.
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