City walls the urban enceinte in global perspective
The essays presented in this volume describe a phenomenon so widespread in human time and space that its importance is easily overlooked. City walls shaped the history of warfare; the mobilization of manpower and resources needed to build them favored some kinds of polities over others; and their ma...
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New York :
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2000
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| Colección: | Studies in comparative early modern history
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- 1. Contained communities in tropical Africa Graham Connah
- 2. Palisaded settlements in prehistoric Eastern North America George R. Milner
- 3. To wall or not to wall: evidence from Medieval Germany James D. Tracy
- 4. Medieval walled space: urban development vs. defense Kathryn L. Reyerson
- 5. A world without walls: city and town in Colonial Spanish America Richard L. Kagan
- 6. The fortifications of Epaminondas and the rise of the monumental Greek city Frederick A. Cooper
- 7. Imperial walled cities in the West and their Early Medieval Nachleben Bernard S. Bachrach
- 8. Delhi walled: changing boundaries Catherine B. Asher
- 9. Walled cities in Islamic North Africa and Egypt (with particular reference to the Fatamids, 909-1171) Jonathan Bloom
- 10. Ottoman military architecture in the early gunpowder era: a reassessment Simon Pepper
- 11. Walled towns during the French wars of religion, 1560-1630 Michael Wolfe
- 12. Portuguese urban fortifications in Morocco: borrowing, adaptation, and innovation along a military frontier Martin M. Elbl
- 13. The artillery fortress as an engine of European overseas expansion, 1480-1750 Geoffrey Parker
- 14. Representations of Chinese walled cities in the pictorial and graphic arts Nancy Shatzman Steinhardt
- 15. The hierarchy of Ming city walls Edward L. Farmer
- 16. Decoration of city walls in Medieval Islam: the epigraphic message Sheila S. Blair
- 17. Medieval French representations of city and other walls Wolfgang G. van Emden
- 18. Siege law, siege ritual, and the symbolism of city walls in Renaissance Europe Simon Pepper
- 19. Representations of the city in siege views of the seventeenth century: the war of military images and their production Martha Pollak.
