Identities in space : contested terrains in the western city since 1850

Abstract

The spatial turn - changing histories of space and place, Simon Gunn. Part 1 Authority, urban development and the representation of the past: classified urban spaces - who owns the history of Helsinki South Harbour? Anja Nevanlinna deciding where to draw the line - urban strategies and the Vieux-Port of Marseille during Second World War, Sheila Crane one Cyprus or many? Turkish Cypriot history in Nicosia, Nergis Canefe. Part 2 Race, ethnicity and urban place: racial boundaries in a frontier town - St. Louis on the eve of the American Civil War, Barbara Burlison Mooney space, race and identity in the Pueblo of Los Angeles, Diane Y. Ghirardo the zone of the other - imposing and resisting alien identities in Chapeltown, Leeds, during the twentieth century, Max Farrar. Part 3 Contesting public space - gender, sexuality and class: boundaries and identities in the 19th-century English port - sailortown narratives and urban space, Valerie Burton the battle of the boulevards - class, gender and the purpose of public space in later Victorian Liverpool, Krista Cowman for whose convenience? gay guides, cognitive maps and the construction of homosexual London, 1917-1967, Matt Houlbrook. Part 4 Spaces for leisure: roughs of both sexes - the working class in Victorian museums and galleries, Kate Hill bourgeois strategies of distinction. Leisure culture and transformations of urban space - the Hague, 1850-1890, Jan-Hein Furnee policing the Alameda - shared and contested leisure in San Sebastian, c. 1863-1920, John K. Walton.

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