Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / Jill Steward and Alexander Cowan -- Stench in sixteenth-century Venice / Jo Wheeler -- 'Not carrying out the vile and mechanical arts' : touch as a measure of social distinction in early modern Venice / Alexander Cowan -- Speaking and listening in early modern London / Laura Wright -- Engineering vision in early modern Paris / Ulf Strohmayer -- Touching London : contact, sensibility, and the city / Ava Arndt -- Sewers and sensibilities : the bourgeois faecal experience in the nineteenth-century city / David Inglis -- 'We demand good and healthy beer' : the nutritional and social significance of beer for the lower classes in mid-nineteenth-century Munich / Kim Carpenter -- Boulevard culture and advertising as spectacle in nineteenth-century Paris / Hazel Hahn -- A taste of Vienna : food as a signifier of urban modernity in Vienna, 1890-1930 / Janet Stewart -- Seeing imperial Berlin : Lesser Ury, the painter as stranger / Dorothy Rowe -- Street noises : celebrating the liberation of Paris in music and dance / Rosemary Wakeman.

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