Emotional Cities

Debates on Urban Change in Berlin and Cairo, 1860-1910

AvJoseph Ben Prestel

Inbunden, Engelska, 2017

Del i serien Emotions in History

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Emotional Cities offers an innovative account of the history of cities in the second half of the nineteenth century. Analyzing debates about emotions and urban change, it questions the assumed dissimilarity of the history of European and Middle Eastern cities during this period. The author shows that between 1860 and 1910, contemporaries in both Berlin and Cairo began to negotiate the transformation of the urban realm in terms of emotions. Looking at the ways in which a variety of urban dwellers, from psychologists to bar maids, framed recent changes in terms of their effect on love, honor, or disgust, the book reveals striking parallels between the histories of the two cities. By combining urban history and the history of emotions, Prestel proposes a new perspective on the emergence of different, yet comparable cities at the end of the nineteenth century.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2017-09-14
Mått:160 x 240 x 21 mm
Vikt:546 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Emotions in History
Antal sidor:244
Förlag:OUP OXFORD
ISBN:9780198797562
Utmärkelser:Co-winner of the Urban History Association 2017-18 Best Book Award (Non-North American)

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Joseph Ben Prestel is a historian of Europe and the Middle East at Freie Universität Berlin. He received his PhD in history from FU Berlin in 2015. Before joining FU's history department, he held a position at the research center for the History of Emotions at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development. He has also held fellowships at Cambridge University and the American University in Cairo.

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Joseph Prestel is one of the first scholars to deploy the approaches of the recent emotional turn in historiography for the benefit of modern urban history... In a scholarly field in which so much of our knowledge still harks back to the history of a handful of Western metropolises, one can only hope that the approach Prestel proposes in this book inspires many to follow.

Innehållsförteckning

Introduction 1: What is Love? Morality and "French Stimulation" in Berlin 2: Who is Rational? Feelings between Hearts and Hymens in Cairo 3: Streets of Excitement: Emotions on Friedrichstraße 4: Neighborhood of Passion: Losing Rationality in Azbakiyya 5: Precarious Calm: Berlin's Emotional Reform 6: Haunted Happiness: Cairo's Suburbs and Sports Conclusion: Towards a Global History of Urban Change in the Nineteenth Century Bibliography

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