Cultural Exchange in Early Modern Europe

by William Monter

As transfer points between different economic and cultural zones, cities are crucial to shaping processes of cultural exchange. Urban culture embraces cultural traits borrowed or imported from afar and those of local neighbourhoods, professions and social groups, yet it also offers possibilities for the survival of minority identities. This volume compares the characteristics and patterns of change in the spaces, sites and building, which expressed...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521845475
• ISBN13: 9780521845472
• Release Date: March 2007
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 454 Pages
• Weight: 1.89 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"