Elaine Chalus is Professor of British History at the University of Liverpool. Marjo Kaartinen is Professor of Cultural History at the University of Turku.

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• 1. Conceived, Constructed, and Contested Spaces: Gender and European Towns — Introduction Part I: Conceived and Constructed Spaces 2. Aristocratic Townhouse as Urban Space: The Fersen Palace in Eighteenth-Century Stockholm 3. "A Busy Day with Me, or at Least with My Feet & My Stockings": Walking for Health and the Female Pedestrian’s Spaces in Eighteenth-Century British Towns 4. "For the Gentlemen of the Town to Walk on by Way of Exchange": Gender, Space and Commerce in the Eighteenth-Century Town 5. Spaces of Sociability in Fashionable Society: Brighton and Nice, c.1825–35 6. Marriage Markets for Elite Women: Imperial St Petersburg and Helsinki 7. The City of Men: Gender, Space and Working-Class Domesticity in Late-Imperial Moscow Part II: Contested Spaces 8. "Uncontrolled Crossings": Gender and Illicit Economic Territories in Eighteenth-Century French Towns 9. Contentious Spaces: Urban Arenas for Violent Crowds in Pre-Industrial Stockholm, c.1700–1850 10. Absent Men and Tainted Houses: Gender, Place and Self in Stockholm in 1719 11. Behind Thin Walls: Contested Spaces and Spheres of Authority in Late Eighteenth-Century Copenhagen 12. Wives with Knives and Lovers: Murder and Marital Households in Eighteenth-Century London and Paris 13. Pride and Resentment: French Émigrés and Republicans in the Streets of Late Eighteenth-Century Copenhagen