City Walls: The Urban Enceinte in Global PerspectiveJames D. Tracy Cambridge University Press, 25 sept. 2000 - 697 pages The essays presented in this volume describe a phenomenon so widespread in human time and space that its importance is easily overlooked. City walls shaped the history of warfare; the mobilization of manpower and resources needed to build them favored some kinds of polities over others; and their massive strength, appropriately ornamented, created a visual language of authority. Chapters by historians and art historians explore how separate traditions throughout the world illustrate universal themes of defensive strategy and the symbolism of power, each time embedded in a distinctive local context. |
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Contained communities in tropical Africa | 19 |
Palisaded settlements in prehistoric eastern North | 46 |
Evidence from medieval | 71 |
Urban development vs defense 88 | 88 |
City and town in colonial | 117 |
The fortifications of Epaminondas and the rise of | 155 |
An examination | 192 |
Walled cities in Islamic North Africa and Egypt | 219 |
Borrowing | 349 |
The artillery fortress as an engine of European | 386 |
Representations of Chinese walled cities in the pictorial | 419 |
The hierarchy of Ming city walls | 461 |
Medieval French representations of city and other | 530 |
Siege law siege ritual and the symbolism of city | 573 |
Representations of the city in siege views of | 605 |
Annotated bibliography of selected secondary works | 647 |
Changing boundaries | 247 |
Ottoman military architecture in the early gunpowder | 282 |
Walled towns during the French wars of religion | 317 |
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