Summary articles Comparative Urban History exam semester two
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Comparative Urban History
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Universiteit Leiden (UL)
Summary of the articles for the second exam for Comparative Urban History (Leiden University). Mainly based on the material covered in the lectures, but otherwise a lot of subjects are covered.
Summary articles Comparative Urban History (final exam)
Building and planning cities in a global world
Marjolein ‘t Hart, The Glorious City: Monumentalism and Public Space in Seventeenth-Century
Amsterdam (2013)
Gilbert Rozman, Urban Networks and Historical Stages (1978)
Japanese Cities and the Asian Comparison
Mary Louise Nagata, Brotherhoods and Stock Societies: Guilds in Pre-modern Japan (2008)
Daniel Botsman, Recovering Japan’s urban past: Yoshida Nobuyuki, Tsukada Takashi, and the cities of the
Tokugawa period (2012)
Uchida Kusuo, Protest and the Tactics of Direct Remonstration: Osaka’s Merchants Make Their Voices
Heard (1999)
Urban Finances in Cities Compared
Marc Boone and Manon van der Heijden, Urban Finances and Public Services in the Late Medieval and
Early Modern Low Countries (2013)
James Tracy, The Age of Fiscal Intermediation in Europe, 1300-1800 (2015)
Labour Migration and Cities
Alessandro Stanziani, Introduction: Labour Institutions in a Global Perspective, from the Seventeenth to
the Twentieth Century (2009)
Prabhu P. Mohapatra, Eurocentrism, Forced Labour, and Global Migration: A Critical Assessment (2007)
Economic Development Female Labour in Comparative Perspective
Tine de Moor and Jan Luiten van Zanden, Girl Power: the European marriage pattern and labour markets
in the North Sea region in the late medieval and early modern period (2009)
Crime and Gender in Comparative Perspective
Manon van der Heijden, Women, Violence and Urban Justice in Holland c. 1600-1838 (2013)
Building and planning cities in a global world
Marjolein ‘t Hart, The Glorious City: Monumentalism and Public Space in Seventeenth-Century
Amsterdam (2013)
Cities are concentrations of wealth and power. Make the town attractive for the rich and skilled munic-
ipal governments strove to improve urban fronts and façades. This paper looks at Amsterdam, but has com-
parisons with Antwerp and London (in their golden ages). Reason Amsterdam had to distinguish itself from
other urban neighbors wasn’t the highest ranking town in the 16th century in the north. But the city had
always enjoyed more autonomy than most other urban centers few outside interference with local pol-
itics. 1578, Amsterdam:
The city in favor of the Revolt and the Oranjes (Alteration).
Taking advantage of the Reformation acquired revenues from church properties.
Claimed specific privileges form the wording of the Alteration Catholic magistrates could remain in
office and increased the city’s control over church funds.
Amsterdam achieved the position of the foremost financial and economic center (expense of Antwerp).
End 16th century Amsterdam obviously a wealthy city in appearance Holland Renaissance style of building
(colorful (red bricks) and decorated with many ornaments). After the Alteration some Catholic structures
were converted for new and public purposes (orphanages, hospitals, workshops, etc.). The city’s works and
buildings were still modest (few space left, cramped market square, etc.) extension needed, especially
after the massive immigration in the 1580’s.
The Alteration allowed for an enlargement of the city in the direction of the harbor area. This extension
was enlarged in the 1590’s with a strict geometrical plan: streets were wider and bridges improved.
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