by Max Weber; translated and edited by Don Martindale and Gertrud Neuwirth.
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Glencoe, Ill.,
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Free Press
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[1958]
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
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242 pages
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22 cm
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
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Includes bibliographical references.
CONTENTS NOTE
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1: THE NATURE OF THE CITY. Economic character of the city : market settlement -- Types of consumer and producer city -- Relation of the city to agriculture -- The politico-administrative concept of the city -- Fortress and garrison -- The city as the fusion of fortress and market -- Associational and status peculiarities of the occidental city
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2: THE OCCIDENTAL CITY. Property rights and personal legal situation -- Fraternization and the formation of the polis -- Magical barriers to oriental civic development -- Disruption of the clans as a prerequisite of fraternization -- Significance of the clans for the ancient and the medieval city -- The oath-bound confederation in the occident -- Sociological significance of civic unity -- Fraternization in the Germanic North -- Military competence of the citizen as a basic component in occidental development
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3: THE PATRICIAN CITY IN ANTIQUITY AND THE MIDDLE AGES. The nature of the patrician city -- Monopolistically closed patrician dominion in Venice -- Patrician development in other Italian communes -- Royal restriction of civic oligarchy in England -- Dominance of political patricians and guilds in Northern Europe -- Charismatic clans of antiquity -- The ancient patrician city as a coastal settlement of warriors -- Contrasts with the medieval city -- The economic structure of the patrician city
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4: THE PLEBEIAN CITY. The revolutionary nature of the "popolo" as a political association -- Distribution of power among the social classes of the medieval Italian city -- Parallelism between the Roman tribunes and Spartan ephors -- Comparative structure of ancient and medieval democracy -- The city tyrannies in antiquity and the Middle Ages -- The special position of the medieval Italian city -- Variations in the medieval urban community : Political autonomy ; Autonomous law of the city and its guilds ; Autocephaly -- an autonomous legal and administrative magistracy ; Tax power over the burghers and tribute and tax freedom toward the outside ; Market regulation -- trade and craft policy and monopolistic exclusion powers ; Relation of the medieval city to non-civic strata -- The city and the church
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5: ANCIENT AND MEDIEVAL DEMOCRACY. The three main types of occidental cities -- Class opposites in antiquity and the Middle Ages -- The ancient democracy of small peasants ; The medieval democracy of professional traders -- Development differences between Hellas ans Rome -- Military orientation of interests in the ancient city -- The dominance of peaceful economic interests in the medieval city -- Negatively privileged status groups as bearers of rational economic technology in antiquity : The bondsman ; Debt slaves ; Clients ; The enfranchised -- Contrasts of the ancient polis as a warrior's guild to the commercial inland city of the Middle Ages -- Special character of Roman democracy in contrast to the Greek.
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PREFATORY REMARKS : THE THEORY OF THE CITY. The first form of American city theory -- Rise of the ecological theory of the city -- Notes on a social-psychological theory of the city -- European developments in urban theory -- Max Weber and European urban theory -- Max Weber's relevance for American urban theory