Civilizing the Urban. Popular Culture and Public Space in Merthyr, C.1870-1914, Hardback - Andy Croll

Early industrial Merthyr is synonymous with the darker side of the British urban experience. This work considers the efforts of dedicated civic "bo...

Drawing on an extensive range of sources, from newspapers and institutional records to oral histories and autobiography, Dangerous amusements explo...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Michael (London School of Economics and Political Science, UK) ReynoldsNumber of pages: 360Publicati...

This book examines how the expansion of a steam-powered Royal Navy from the second half of the nineteenth century had wider ramifications across th...

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Petitioning has a forgotten but essential role in the history of modern democracy. In the antebellum era, petitions gave North Americans, especiall...

This study follows the development of Lancashire's unique network of art institutions throughout the nineteenth century, exploring the motivations ...

Reducere. Extraordinary art and architecture installations from around the world. Urban interventions establish strong links between the social and spatial s...

Conveys the excitement, diversity and richness of London at a time when the city was arguably at the height of its power, uniqueness and attraction...

This collection of essays revisits gender and urban modernity in nineteenth-century Paris in the wake of changes to the fabric of the city and soci...

What do ghost hunting, legend tripping, and legendary monsters have in common with email hoaxes, chain letters, and horror movies? In this follow-u...

This book interrogates the white savior industrial complex by exploring how America continues to present an imagined Africa as a space for salvatio...

The Magical Imagination: Magic and Modernity in Urban England, 1780–1914 - Karl Bell

DescriptionIn the 1800s, urban development efforts modernized Paris and encouraged the creation of brothels, boulevards, caf s, dancehalls, and eve...

This interdisciplinary collection of essays examines the construction and contestation of popular culture in the late eighteenth and early nineteen...

With the growth in sociocultural perspectives on PR, and the changing contemporary culture in which it plays a significant role, this book will be ...

Reducere. Reimagining Black Masculinities: Race, Gender, and Public Space addresses how Black masculinities are created, negotiated, and contested in public ...

By the mid-twentieth century, Barry Island had become one of Britain's most popular seaside resorts. Its history carries important lessons for hist...

From romantic novelist Elinor Glyn in the 1920s to Prince Harry and Meghan Markle today, this collection examines some of the history, contemporary...

Publisher: Princeton University PressAuthor(s): Esther da Costa MeyerIllustration(s): 60 color + 115 b/w illus.Number of pages: 416Publication date...

Reducere. Congratulations You're about to learn insider secrets to survive disasters, pandemics, economic collapse, and breakdowns in civil order...even if l...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Professor Emeritus Paul (University of Illinois, USA, and University of Tasmania, Australia.) Duncum...

Reducere. This book may seem a simple accumulation of twenty-one public space projects in eight Latin American cities. On closer inspection, the presentation...

An examination of the role of Winchester as the heart of royal power in early medieval England.Publisher: Oxbow BooksIllustration(s): B/wNumber of ...

This work focuses on the creation of, and struggle over, urban order in four cities in Eastern and Southern Africa, namely Nairobi, Lusaka, Zanziba...

Marriage is a central trope in popular portrayals of Germany's largest ethnic minority. In exploring Turkish-German matrimony in popular genres inc...

In-depth reassessment of the recruitment, training, arming and ethos of the Home Guard.Publisher: Pen & Sword Books LtdAuthor(s): Malcolm AtkinIllu...

A study of the long term historical background to the disputes over parades and related issues that remain central to conflict in Northern Ireland,...

This book considers the material conditions in which the production and consumption of art takes place, looking at how art is presented to the comm...

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Publisher: Taylor & Francis LtdIllustration(s): 14 Line drawings, black and white; 59 Halftones, black and white; 3 Tables, black and white; 73 Ill...

Publisher: Lexington BooksNumber of pages: 370Collection: Comparative Urban StudiesPublication date: 2008Dimensions: 238 x 159 x 33Cover type: Hard...

Reducere. The National Book Award-winning epic chronicle of the creation of the Panama Canal, a first-rate drama of the bold and brilliant engineering feat t...

Explores the interplay of space and culture in the plaza, showing how culture acts to shape public spaces and how the physical form of the plaza en...

An exploration of our love affair with the Victorian vampire.Illustrations: 30 black and white illustrations

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Publisher: MIT Press LtdAuthor(s): Ricardo AlvarezIllustration(s): 39 black and white illustrationsNumber of pages: 224Publication date: 2021Dimens...

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Racialization and the Production of Space in Relation to Urban Development and the National ImaginaryIllustrations: 37 b&w

By focusing on such controversies and conflicts as the status of women, relations between the sexes, class antagonisms and the growth of a commerci...

De la cultura populara la "fake news".Demoni si troli in lumea contemporana Pentru a lupta impotriva stirilor false nu este suficienta avertizarea ...

In this second edition of the remarkable, and now classic, cultural history of black women's beauty, Venus in the Dark, Janell Hobson explores the ...

If all military histories were as thrilling and well written as 'African Kaiser', I might give up reading fiction. - Washington Post

Despite the rise in research and public awareness about rape culture and gendered violence, it remains a serious problem. Using case studies from t...

Reducere. France achieved national unity much later than is commonly supposed. For a hundred years and more after the Revolution, millions of peasants lived ...

How many authors were there in antiquity? Where did they work? How was the 'canon' made? This book provides an account of ancient culture in terms ...