Main entry:

Schlör, Joachim, 1960-

Title & Author:

Nights in the big city : Paris・Berlin・London 1840-1930 / Joachim Schlör ; translated by Pierre Gottfried Imhof and Dafydd Rees Roberts. Nights in the big city : Paris, Berlin, London 1840-1930 / Joachim Schlör ; translated by Pierre Gottfried Imhof and Dafydd Rees Roberts.

Publication:

London : Reaktion Books, 1998.

Description:

351 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Series:

Topographics

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 323-343) and index.
I. Contradictory Reports from Night in the Big City -- 1. Access to the night -- 2. Sources and reporters -- 3. Methods of research -- 4. Themes of the night: security, morality, accessibility -- 5. Ways of speaking about the night -- 6. Excursions into the city night -- II. Beginning: Big City Nights Around 1840 -- 1. Signals of the night -- 2. First transgressions and centres of nocturnal activity -- 3. Under the eye of the police: rag-merchants, beggars, prostitutes -- 4. nocturnal locations are recorded -- 5. New images of the night -- 6. On the street -- 7. city night and 'modernity' -- 8. discovery of the dangerous classes -- 9. Ambiguous night sides -- 10. mystery of the urban night -- 11. First steps into the night. Digression: In a New Light -- 1. Beauty of the night in the light -- 2. In the dark -- 3. Blinding brightness -- III. Night and Security -- 1. night-watch -- 2. Closing time -- 3. Criminal worlds -- 4. Homelessness -- IV. Night and Morality -- 1. Women in the city night -- 2. Prostitution -- 3. Midnight mission -- V. Night-Walking -- 1. Insight while walking -- 2. nocturnal terrain -- 3. Nocturnal public life -- 4. Streets as stages -- 5. Styles of nocturnal walking -- VI. End: Big City Nights Around 1930 -- 1. National Socialist nights -- 2. Morning in the big city.

Summary:

"This book describes the changes in the perception and experience of the night in three great European cities: Paris, Berlin and London." "The lighting up of the city by gas in the first half of the nineteenth century brought about a new relationship with the night: the idea of 'night life' developed, with all its associations of pleasure, escape from the everyday, and secrecy. But this was only half the story - the city night has never revealed its riches at first glance, but keeps them half-buried in obscure sources, little-known texts and stories. The cultural historian Joachim Schlor spent his nights trawling the highways and byways of the three great capitals of Europe, his days sifting the countless police, city and church archives, to produce this startlingly evocative portrait."--Jacket.

Resources:
Table of contents
Book review (H-Net)
Contributor biographical information
Publisher description

ISBN:

186189015X (paperback)
9781861890153 (paperback)

Subject:

City and town life Europe History.
City and town life France Paris History.
City and town life Germany Berlin History.
City and town life England London History.
Vie urbaine Europe Histoire.
City and town life.
Manners and customs.
Moral conditions.
Nachtleven.
Paris (France) Social life and customs.
Berlin (Germany) Social life and customs.
London (England) Social life and customs.
Europe Moral conditions.
Paris (France) Moral conditions.
Berlin (Germany) Moral conditions.
London (England) Moral conditions.
Paris (France) Mœurs et coutumes.
Londres (Angleterre) Mœurs et coutumes.
Europe Conditions morales.
England London.
Europe.
France Paris.
Germany Berlin.

Form/genre:

History.

Added entries:

Topographics.

Nights in the big city : Paris・Berlin・London 1840-1930 / Joachim Schlör ; translated by Pierre Gottfried Imhof and Dafydd Rees Roberts.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 200382
Call No.: HT384.G32 B4 1998
Status: Available