文档介绍：THE CITY
PATTERNS OF DOMINATION AND CONFLICT
The City
Patterns of domination and conflict
BRIAN ELLIOTT AND DAVID McCRONE
Department ofSociology, University of Edinburgh, Scotland
St. Martin's Press New York
©Brian Elliott and David McCrone 1982
Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 1982 978-0-333-22601-8
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First published in the United States of America in 1982
ISBN 978-0-333-22603-2 ISBN 978-1-349-16925-2 (eBook)
DOI -1-349-16925-2
Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data
Elliott, Brian A.
The city.
I. Sociology, Urban- Great Britain.
2. Social conflict. 3. Urban economics.
4. Power (Social sciences). 5. Marxian
school of sociology. I. McCrone, David.
II. Title.
1982 '64 81-51614
AACR2
Contents
Introduction 1
1 Towards an Interpretative Framework 6
The promise of Marxian approaches 6
The weaknesses of Marxian approaches 11
General features of an interpretative framework 20
2 The Medieval Cities: The Struggles for
Domination 33
Introduction 34
Interpretations 34
The city 37
The patrician city 42
The plebeian city 45
Urban autonomy: rise and fall 46
3 The Emergence of the Modem City 51
Cities and the growth of the modern state 51
From burgher to bourgeois: the rise of a
capitalist class 56
The triumph of the industrial bourgeoisie 61
Bourgeois domination and legitimacy 66
The rise anized labour 72
Conclusion 76
4 Bureaucracy, Politics and the City 78
The nature of bureaucratic power 79
Bureaucracy in the ascendant? 83
Bureaucratic power constrained 87
The local and national state 90
The extension of bureaucratic power 93
VI Contents
5 Market Forces and Property Relations 97
Introduction 97
The local property owners and the world
they have lost 99
Property booms and the developers