Acknowledgments | p. vii |
Introduction: Cities, Institutions and Migration in the Low Countries | p. 1 |
Urbanisation in the European Middle Ages: Phases of Openness and Occlusion | p. 16 |
The Desired Stranger: Attraction and Expulsion in the Medieval City | p. 32 |
The Dutch 'City Republics': Guilds, Militias and Civic Politics | p. 46 |
'City Air Sets You Free': Autonomy and Rivalry in the Early Modern Northern Netherlands | p. 63 |
Employment, Education and Social Assistance: The Economic Attraction of Early Modern Cities | p. 84 |
The Literary Image of the City: From the Middle Ages until the End of the Nineteenth Century | p. 103 |
The Hague, City of Wealth: Urban Governance and Culture in the Nineteenth Century | p. 129 |
The Modern City: Migration, Social Control and Planning, 1850-Present | p. 147 |
The City and the Art of Earning: Cultural Industries in the Twentieth-Century Netherlands | p. 168 |
Why Cities Prosper as Deltas: The Urbanisation of the Eurodelta | p. 192 |
Why People Want to Live in the City: Looking Back | p. 216 |
Bibliography | p. 227 |
Contributors | p. 253 |
Index | p. 255 |
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