Edo and Paris : : Urban Life and the State in the Early Modern Era / / ed. by James L. McClain, Ugawa Kaoru, John M. Merriman.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Archive Pre-2000
• MitwirkendeR: Beik, William,; Chartier, Roger,; Coaldrake, William H.,; Elisonas, Jurgis,; Ikegami, Eiko,; Isherwood, Robert M.,; Jun, Hatano,; Kaoru, Ugawa,; Kaplan, Steven Laurence,; Kelly, William W.,; Kettering, Sharon,; Makoto, Takeuchi,; McClain, James L.,; Merriman, John M.,; Reiko, Hayashi,; Smith, Henry D.,; Takashi, Kato,; Tilly, Charles,; Walthall, Anne,
• HerausgeberIn: Kaoru, Ugawa,; McClain, James L.,; Merriman, John M.,
• Place / Publishing House: Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2019]; ©1997
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (512 p.) :; 26 b/w illus., 14 maps, 7 tables

A book that will change the way we think about the relationship between city and nation, Edo and Paris offers a dazzling view of daily life and urban development in two early modern cities.In August 1590, Tokugawa Ieyasu marched into the drab little fishing village of Edo. Less than four years later and on the other side of the world, the newly crowned Henry IV fought his way into a Paris rife with disease and decay. By 1700, Paris had become the political center of France and a major European metropolis. Known today as Tokyo, the Edo from which the Shogun ruled Japan in 1700 was the world's most populous city.Edo and Paris compares how the Tokugawas and the Bourbons crafted their states and built their capitals. It also provides rich detail about the experiences of ordinary people, covering topics from the nature of popular culture to forms of resistance to authority in both cities. In nineteen chapters accompanied by period illustrations and maps, experts from a wide variety of fields offer a vibrant portrait not of one Edo and one Paris, but of many.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Maps and Illustrations -- Figures and Tables -- Preface -- Chronology -- 1. Edo and Paris -- GOVERNANCE -- 2. Governing Edo -- 3. Louis XIV and the Cities -- 4. State Control and Municipal Authority in France -- SPACE -- 5. Edobashi -- 6. Power, Space, and Investments in Paris -- 7. Building a New Establishment -- PROVISIONING -- 8. Provisioning Paris -- 9. Provisioning Edo in the Early Eighteenth Century -- 10. Edo's Water Supply -- CULTURE -- 11. Notorious Places -- 12. The Festivity of the Parisian Boulevards -- 13. Incendiary Actions -- 14. The History of the Book in Edo and Paris -- RESISTANCE -- 15. Guilds, "False Workers," and the Faubourg Saint-Antoine -- 16. Festivals and Fights -- 17. Edo Riots -- 18. State Formation and Contention in Japan and France -- 19. Visions of the City -- Glossary -- Contributors -- Index