ISBN10: 0801429870, ISBN13: 9780801429873, [publisher: Cornell University Press] Hardcover xxv, 483 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm Contents: 1. Edo and Paris: Cities and Power / James L. McClain and John M. Merriman -- 2. Governing Edo / Kato Takashi -- 3. Louis XIV and the Cities / William Beik -- 4. State Control and Municipal Authority in France / Sharon Kettering -- 5. Edobashi: Power, Space, and Popular Culture in Edo / James L. McClain -- 6. Power, Space, and Investments in Paris / Roger Chartier -- 7. Building a New Establishment: Tokugawa Iemitsu's Consolidation of Power and the Taitokuin Mausoleum / William H. Coaldrake -- 8. Provisioning Paris: The Crisis of 1738-1741 / Steven Laurence Kaplan -- 9. Provisioning Edo in the Early Eighteenth Century: The Pricing Policies of the Shogunate and the Crisis of 1733 / Hayashi Reiko -- 10. Edo's Water Supply / Hatano Jun -- 11. Notorious Places: A Brief Excursion into the Narrative Topography of Early Edo / Jurgis Elisonas -- 12. The Festivity of the Parisian Boulevards / Robert M. Isherwood -- 13. Incendiary Actions: Fires and Firefighting in the Shogun's Capital and the People's City / William W. Kelly -- 14. History of the Book in Edo and Paris / Henry D. Smith II -- 15. Guilds, "False Workers," and the Faubourg Saint-Antoine / Steven Laurence Kaplan -- 16. Festivals and Fights: The Law and the People of Edo / Takeuchi Makoto -- 17. Edo Riots / Anne Walthall -- 18. State ...
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