Migrants and the Making of the Urban-Maritime World. Agency and Mobility in Port Cities, c. 1570-1940, Paperback - ***

Throughout the ages of sail and steam, migrants made vital contributions to the construction of the urban-maritime world in terms of the built envi...

Reducere. DescriptionThe award-winning, field-defining history of gay life in New York City in the early to mid-20th century Gay New York brilliantly shatter...

As cities from Cape Town to La Paz face acute water shortages, citizens need to know how urban water systems evolved to understand their vulnerabil...

What keeps capitalism afloat? The global ocean has through the centuries served as a trade route, strategic space, fish bank and supply chain for t...

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All the Nations Under Heaven is an unparalleled chronicle of the role of immigrants and migrants in shaping the history and culture of New York Cit...

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

This volume investigates how the structure and use of space developed and changed in cities, and examines the role of different societal groups in ...

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Publisher: Taylor & Francis LtdAuthor(s): Cristina MaximIllustration(s): 27 Line drawings, black and white; 44 Halftones, black and white; 16 Table...

With contributions from an international range of established and emerging scholars drawing upon real world examples, this title is the first to us...

Publisher: Fordham University PressAuthor(s): Jean HalleyIllustration(s): 30 color illustrationsNumber of pages: 320Collection: Polis: Fordham Seri...

Enter the cross-cultural tale of gusto and enchantment, adaptation and loss, preserving the old ways of making a life. Presented in six acts with i...

The Making of Migration addresses the rapid phenomenon that has become one of the most contentious issues in contemporary life: how are migrants go...

A complete history of the maritime struggle in the Mediterranean and Middle East during World War II.Publisher: Casemate PublishersAuthor(s): Brian...

Reducere. Urban Migrants in Rural Japan provides a fresh perspective on theoretical notions of rurality and emerging modes of working and living in post-grow...

Reducere. Analyzing the rise and subsequent fall of international piracy from the perspective of colonial hinterlands, Mark G. Hanna explores the often overt...

Cities' transportation systems affect people, ecosystems, and future generations, and they increase tensions between historical preservation, socia...

Reducere. DescriptionMaking Whiteness is a profoundly important work that explains how and why whiteness came to be such a crucial, embattled--and distorting...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCIllustration(s): 10 bw illusNumber of pages: 240Collection: Ancient EnvironmentsPublication date: 2022Dimension...

Reducere. With climate change in the news, an urban core that has reached boiling point, and many children growing up without role models and with limited dr...

This book delves into the ethical dimension of urban life: how should one live in the city? What constitutes a 'good' life under urban condition? W...

From Australia to North America, we need to rethink how our cities resist environmental change in the age of climate catastropheIllustrations: 3 Ta...

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In Four Lost Cities, acclaimed science journalist Annalee Newitz takes readers on an entertaining and mind-bending adventure into the deep history ...

Examines the making and remaking of Nairobi, one of Africa's most fragmented, vibrant cities, contributing to debates on urban anthropology, the po...

Reducere. This book surveys the cities of the Ancient Near East, Egypt, and the Greek and Roman worlds, with a focus on their physical appearance, on urban f...

Reducere. DescriptionThis book is the result of two historic events that took place in Quito, Ecuador during October 2016. The first was the Gospel and the F...

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The Mongol army led by Genghis Khan subjugated more lands and people in twenty-five years than the Romans did in four hundred. In nearly every coun...

Reducere. Shame influences more of our thoughts and actions than many other emotions. Used as a punishment for bad behavior, shame acts as an incentive for u...

Rozsika Parker's re-evaluation of the reciprocal relationship between women and embroidery has brought stitchery out from the private world of fema...

Long before Greeks dominated the ancient Mediterranean, Phoenicians were the lords of the sea. Setting out from their Levantine cities, they introd...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Michael J. JarvisIn an exploration of the oceanic connections of the Atlantic world, Michael J. Jarvis recovers a mariner's...

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This book critically engages with the contemporary challenges of planning wild cities in a climate of change and will be of particular interest to ...

In the spring of 1940, Stalin's NKVD executed 22, 000 Polish officers, ensigns and state officials near the Russian village of Katyn and other plac...

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Reducere. This volume provides a synthesis of some of the most important themes to emerge from the recent proliferation of specialized scholarship on the per...