Rouen and its printers from the 15th to the 19th century; Lyon's printers and booksellers from the fifteenth to the nineteenth century; Gavarni's Parisian population reproduced; the literary dangers of the city - policing immoral books in Berlin, 1850-1880; readers, browsers, strangers, spectators - narrative forms and metropolitan encounters in 20th-century Berlin; commercial spies and cultural invaders - the French press, "Penetration Pacifique" and xenophobic nationalism in the shadow of war; neutrality under threat - freedom, use and "abuse" in Switzerland, 1914-19; the "cultured city" - the art press in Berlin and Paris in the early 20th century; text and image in the constuction of an urban readership - allied propaganda in France during World War II; structures of the typescript.
