Southall, Aidan William.
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List of illustrations page ix Acknowledgements x Introduction 1 1 'Writing the city under crisis' 3 2 Pristine cities 23 The Old World 23 The New World 45 3 Greece and Rome 54 Greece 54 Rome 69 4 Cities of the Feudal mode of production in Europe 89 5 Asian cities: Asiatic and Feudal modes of production 125 Imperial China: from city-state to world metropolis 125 Japanese insular urban development in long isolation 158 Islamic cities 189 Indie cities 238 6 From colonial to Third World cities 252 Iberian colonization 252 Proto-capitalist colonization 264 India 276 Africa 281 Latin America 290 Convergence 295 Those who escaped 299 7 The transformation of the city: from the Feudal to the Capitalist mode of Production, and on to the apocalypse 306 Britain 306 France 338 Germany: cultural continuity and Post-war reconstruction 348 The United States 350 Globalization 405 Notes 420 References 423 420 Index 450