This book conceives the role of the modern town as a crucial place for material and cultural circulations of luxury. It concentrates on a critical period of his
This book conceives the role of the modern town as a crucial place for material and cultural circulations of luxury. It concentrates on a critical period of his
Towns are imagined, lived and experienced, as much as they are conceived and constructed. They reflect cultural and intellectual currents, prevailing economic c
Moving from the mid-seventeenth century to the near present, this book marks physical and conceptual changes across European towns and examines how gender was i