TY - BOOK AU - Cowan,Alexander AU - Steward,Jill ED - ebrary, Inc. TI - The city and the senses: urban culture since 1500 T2 - Historical urban studies AV - HT131 .C523 2007eb U1 - 307.76094 22 PY - 2007/// CY - Aldershot, England, Burlington, VT PB - Ashgate KW - Cities and towns KW - Europe KW - History KW - Senses and sensation KW - Sociology, Urban KW - 1492- KW - Social conditions KW - Electronic books KW - local N1 - 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; Electronic reproduction; Palo Alto, Calif.; ebrary; 2009; Available via World Wide Web; Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries UR - http://site.ebrary.com/lib/strathmore/Doc?id=10211015 ER -