The Oxford Handbook of Cities in World History
Edited by Peter Clark
Author Information
Peter Clark was until recently Professor of European Urban History at the University of Helsinki. Educated at Oxford he was the first director (1985) of the Centre for Urban History at the University of Leicester where he remains Visiting Professor. In 1989 he helped found the European Association for Urban History and he has published or edited over 20 books on urban, social, cultural and environmental history. In 2010 he received an honorary degree from Stockholm University.
Contributors:
Carl Abbott, Portland State University in Oregon
Mohammad al-Asad, the Center for the Study of the Built Environment (CSBE) in Amman, Jordan
J. A. Baird, Birkbeck College, University of London
Wim Blockmans has been a history professor at Rotterdam and Leiden Universities, and Rector of the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study
Bruno Blondé, the University of Antwerp
Leonard Blussé, Leiden University
Marc Boone, Ghent university
Maarten Bosker, the Erasmus University Rotterdam
Ebru Boyar, Middle East Technical University, Ankara
Eltjo Buringh, Utrecht University
Peter Burke, Emmanuel College, Cambridge
Xiangming Chen, Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut and Fudan University in Shanghai, China
Peter Clark, Emeritus Professor, University of Helsinki and Visiting Professor, Leicester University
Penelope J. Corfield, Royal Holloway, London University
Howard Dick, the University of Melbourne and the University of Newcastle (NSW)
Felipe Fernández-Armesto, Notre Dame University
Henry Fitts graduated from Trinity College in 2012
Bill Freund, the University of KwaZulu-Natal
Alan Gilbert, University College London
Marjolein 't Hart, the University of Amsterdam
Carola Hein, Bryn Mawr College, Pennsylvania
Marjatta Hietala, formerly of the University of Tampere
Ho-fung Hung, the Johns Hopkins University
Jussi S. Jauhiainen, the University of Turku and the University of Tartu
Prashant Kidambi, University of Leicester
Ray Laurence, University of Kent at Canterbury
Andrew Lees, The State University of New Jersey
Lynn Hollen Lees, the University of Pennsylvania
Luuk de Ligt, the University of Leiden
Mario Liverani, the University of Rome, La Sapienza
Leo Lucassen, Leiden University
David Mattingly, the University of Leicester
Kevin McDonald, the UCL Institute of Archaeology
James L. McClain, Brown University
Augusta McMahon, the University of Cambridge
Martin V. Melosi, the University of Houston, Houston, Texas
Thomas R. Metcalf, the University of California, Berkeley
Robin Osborne, the University of Cambridge
Cameron Petrie, the University of Cambridge
Peter J. Rimmer, the Australian National University
William T. Rowe, the Johns Hopkins University
Hannu Salmi, the University of Turku
Kristin Stapleton, the University at Buffalo, State University of New York
Nancy S. Steinhardt, the University of Pennsylvania
David Stone studies the archaeology and history of North Africa
Dominique Valérian, the Université Lumière-Lyon
Ilja Van Damme, the Centre for Urban History
Jan Luiten Van Zanden, the University of Utrecht
Mercedes Volait, the Institut national d'histoire de l'art, Paris
Paul Waley, the University of Leeds
Andrew Wallace-Hadrill, Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge
Hilde de Weerdt, Pembroke College, the University of Oxford
Anne Winter, the Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Shaohua Zhan, the Johns Hopkins University
