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Disappointed to find that I marked that I had read this whole book a few years ago, but I’m really going for it this time!

Withington follows De Vries and conceives of urbanization as a structural and behavioral process - the centralization of various institutions (markets, courts, local governments) and networks (of news, goods and people) in corporate municipalities alongside the development of urban civility and ideas about self-government. The growth of the corp system was a response to 16th c tumults (economic, social, religious)

In the 18th and 19th centuries, Europeans came to romanticize consumption, to see the illness as beautiful and ennobling. It’s tempting to imagine this romanticization as the opposite of stigmatization… But really, I see these as complementary strategies used to make the sick into an ‘other’ a group of people, fundamentally, distant and different from the rest of the social order.

Field describes three intellectual strains which shaped the transformation in conservative thought from 2016-2024 and the death of the fusionist consensus, the politics of Reagan and Buckley. The three strains are: the Claremonters/west coast straussians; postliberals; and national conservatives.

Setting up a narrative where K rebels bc Josiah Child underpays soldiers while also making Bombay vulnerable to Mahratta and Mughal predation. So far it’s a pleasant, quaint sort of history