{"product_id":"the-rule-of-freedom-liberalism-and-the-modern-city-paperback","title":"The Rule of Freedom: Liberalism and the Modern City - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003ePatrick Joyce\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe liberal governance of the nineteenth-century state and city depended on the \"rule of freedom.\" As a form of rule it relied on the production of certain kinds of citizens and patterns of social life, which in turn depended on transforming both the material form of the city (its layout, architecture, infrastructure) and the ways it was inhabited and imagined by its leaders, citizens and custodians. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFocusing mainly on London and Manchester, but with reference also to Glasgow, Dublin, Paris, Vienna, colonial India, and even contemporary Los Angeles, Patrick Joyce creatively and originally develops Foucauldian approaches to historiography to reflect on the nature of modern liberal society. His consideration of such \"artifacts\" as maps and censuses, sewers and markets, public libraries and parks, and of civic governments and city planning, are intertwined with theoretical interpretations to examine both the impersonal, often invisible forms of social direction and control built into the infrastructure of modern life and the ways in which these mechanisms shape cultural and social life and engender popular resistance.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePatrick Joyce\u003c\/b\u003e has become known, through books including \u003ci\u003eVisions of the People\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eDemocratic Subjects\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Oxford Reader on Class\u003c\/i\u003e, as a leading social and cultural historian, as well as one of the chief exponents of postmodernist thought in history. He is Professor of Modern History at Manchester University.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 292\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.71 x 9.13 x 6.08 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 23, 2008\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51797189919008,"sku":"9781844673902","price":34.51,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/16bdc1f5a4222bcaed22317a6f10804d.webp?v=1780775310","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/the-rule-of-freedom-liberalism-and-the-modern-city-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}