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...

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