Explore this collection on the history of Europe’s cities featuring books by Margarette Lincoln, Richard Cockett, Marek Kohn and more. You can shop this selection with 30% off on our website yalebooks.co.uk by using the code Y2503 at checkout.*
The Stories Old Towns Tell
A Journey through Cities at the Heart of Europe
Marek Kohn
A journey through Europe’s old towns, exploring why we treasure them—but also what they hide about a continent’s fraught history
“An original take on 20th-century European history… illuminates the city as a symbolic vehicle for the representation of powerful ideas”
Alastair Bailey, Financial Times
Vienna
How the City of Ideas Created the Modern World
Richard Cockett
How can one European capital be responsible for most of the West’s intellectual and cultural achievements in the twentieth century?
“What makes Cockett’s book compelling, however, are stories of the lesser-known, equally spirited Viennese that moulded the contours of the consumer-capitalist world order.”
Sam Jones, Financial Times
London and the Seventeenth Century
The Making of the World’s Greatest City
Margarette Lincoln
The first comprehensive history of seventeenth-century London, told through the lives of those who experienced it
“Vivid and engrossing…Lincoln is adept at spotting eloquent details that stick in the mind.”
John Carey, The Sunday Times
Belfast
The Story of a City and its People
Feargal Cochrane
A lively and inviting history of Belfast—exploring the highs and lows of a resilient city
“To read Feargal Cochrane’s wide-ranging account of the city, therefore, is to ricochet pleasurably between recognition and surprise.”
Jenny McCartney, The Spectator
Madrid
A New Biography
Luke Stegemann
The miraculous story of Madrid—how a village became a great world city
“The main chapters in Madrid’s history are told with spirit. . . . But it is Stegemann’s sallies down the lesser known alleys of its history that do most to fire the imagination.”
Isambard Wilkinson, The Times
The First Irish Cities
An Eighteenth-Century Transformation
David Dickson
The untold story of a group of Irish cities and their remarkable development before the age of industrialization
“Stylishly written and impeccably well researched.”
JP O’Malley, Irish Independent
Walking Rome’s Waters
Katherine Wentworth Rinne
An engaging guide to the waterways of Rome and their role in shaping the city’s culture, history, and landscape
“A drop-dead terrific book. Written with exceptional elegance, wit, clarity, and grace, it is both intellectually stimulating and a pleasure to read. I know of no book like it.”
Paul Barolsky
Migrant City
A New History of London
Panikos Panayi
The first history of London to show how immigrants have built, shaped, and made a great success of the capital city
“Admirably thorough. . . . Anyone curious about the impact of migration on the history and culture of London could do worse than read the chapter on food in this exhaustive history.”
Andrew Holgate, Sunday Times
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