{"product_id":"city-walls-the-urban-enceinte-in-global-perspective-paperback-9780521124157","title":"City Walls; The Urban Enceinte in Global Perspective (Paperback) 9780521124157","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eCity Walls\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eThe Urban Enceinte in Global Perspective\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThis book explores how wall-building traditions throughout the world illustrate universal themes of defensive strategy and the symbolism of power.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eJames D. Tracy (Edited by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780521124157, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback, published 3 December 2009\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e720 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 4 cm, 1.04 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eReview of the hardback: 'All contributions assembled in this volume are valuable contributions to scholarship … excellent and very thorough pieces of original research.' Brill\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eThe essays presented in this volume, first published in 2000, describe a phenomenon so widespread in human time and space that its importance is easily overlooked. City walls shaped the history of warfare; the mobilisation of manpower and resources needed to build them favoured some kinds of polities over others; and their massive strength, appropriately ornamented, created a visual language of authority. Previous collective volumes on the subject have dealt mainly with Europe, but the historians and art historians who collaborate here follow a comparative agenda. The millennial practice of wall building that branched out from the ancient Near East into India, Europe, and North Africa shows continuities and points of contact of which the makers of urban fortifications were scarcely aware; separate traditions in China, sub-Saharan Africa, and North America illustrate universal themes of defensive strategy and the symbolism of power, each time embedded in a distinctive local context.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e1. Contained communities in tropical Africa Graham Connah\u003cbr\u003e 2. Palisaded settlements in prehistoric Eastern North America George R. Milner\u003cbr\u003e 3. To wall or not to wall: evidence from Medieval Germany James D. Tracy\u003cbr\u003e 4. Medieval walled space: urban development vs. defence Kathryn L. Reyerson\u003cbr\u003e 5. A world without walls: city and town in colonial Spanish America Richard L. Kagan\u003cbr\u003e 6. The fortifications of Epaminondas and the rise of the monumental Greek city Frederick A. Cooper\u003cbr\u003e 7. Imperial walled cities in the West and their early medieval Nachleben Bernard S. Bachrach\u003cbr\u003e 8. Delhi walled: changing boundaries Catherine B. Asher\u003cbr\u003e 9. Walled cities in Islamic North Africa and Egypt (with particular reference to the Fatamids, 909–1171) Jonathan Bloom\u003cbr\u003e 10. Ottoman military architecture in the early gunpowder era: a reassessment Simon Pepper\u003cbr\u003e 11. Walled towns during the French wars of religion, 1560–1630 Michael Wolfe\u003cbr\u003e 12. Portuguese urban fortifications in Morocco: borrowing, adaptation, and innovation along a military frontier Martin M. Elbl\u003cbr\u003e 13. The artillery fortress as an engine of European overseas expansion, 1480–1750 Geoffrey Parker\u003cbr\u003e 14. Representations of Chinese walled cities in the pictorial and graphic arts Nancy Shatzman Steinhardt\u003cbr\u003e 15. The hierarchy of Ming city walls Edward L. Farmer\u003cbr\u003e 16. Decoration of city walls in Medieval Islam: the epigraphic message Sheila S. Blair\u003cbr\u003e 17. Medieval French representations of city and other walls Wolfgang G. van Emden\u003cbr\u003e 18. Siege law, siege ritual, and the symbolism of city walls in Renaissance Europe Simon Pepper\u003cbr\u003e 19. Representations of the city in siege views of the seventeenth century: the war of military images and their production Martha Pollak.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Early modern history: c 1450\/1500 to c 1700 [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Early modern history: c 1450\/1500 to c 1700\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Early%20modern%20history:%20c%201450\/1500%20to%20c%201700%20%5BHBLH%5D%22\"\u003eHBLH\u003c\/a\u003e], European history [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on European history\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22European%20history%20%5BHBJD%5D%22\"\u003eHBJD\u003c\/a\u003e], General \u0026amp; world history [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on General \u0026amp; world history\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22General%20\u0026amp;%20world%20history%20%5BHBG%5D%22\"\u003eHBG\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45913154715928,"sku":"9780521124157","price":35.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9780521124157i_6501c5a8-dc09-4f2f-90e7-a245d0e15210.jpg?v=1691371801","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/city-walls-the-urban-enceinte-in-global-perspective-paperback-9780521124157","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}