The Revolutionary City. Urbanization and the Global Transformation of Rebellion, Hardback - Mark R. Beissinger

Publisher: Princeton University PressAuthor(s): Mark R. BeissingerIllustration(s): 77 b/w illus. 14 tables.Number of pages: 592Publication date: 20...

Publisher: Princeton University PressAuthor(s): Mark R. BeissingerIllustration(s): 77 b/w illus. 14 tables.Number of pages: 592Publication date: 20...

DescriptionAs new networks of railways, steamships, and telegraph communications brought distant places into unprecedented proximity, previously mi...

Eli Friedman reveals how cities in China have granted public goods to the privileged while condemning poor and working-class migrants to insecurity...

Publisher: University of California PressAuthor(s): Ryan BoehmIllustration(s): 6 mapsNumber of pages: 316Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 154 x 22...

DescriptionThe future of our cities is not what it used to be. The modern-city model that took hold globally in the twentieth century has outlived ...

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

Reducere. A beautiful Southern city distinguished by its opulent homes, towering church steeples and hospitality, Charleston, South Carolina, has long been a...

DescriptionIn October 1911 the governor of Oaxaca, Mexico, ordered a detachment of approximately 250 soldiers to take control of the town of Juchit...

Reducere. Good advice is hard to find. True accountability is harder.As men, it's hard to admit fault, defeat, or weakness. But the reality is we need each o...

Reducere. Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Fully updated compendium of revolt and resistance Throughout the ages and across every continent, people have struggled against those in power and ...

Reducere. The city of Charleston, South Carolina, with its matchless Southern charm, has sparkled gem-like on the Carolina coast for more than three hundred ...

Through its account of influential socio-political processes - such as the resurgence of fascism and white supremacy, the crafting of new technolog...

In Maimonides and the Merchants, Mark R. Cohen reveals the extent of pragmatic revisions to the halakha, or body of Jewish law, introduced by Moses...

A sweeping, lavishly illustrated one-volume history of the rise of American naval power during World War IIPublisher: Yale University PressAuthor(s...

A dissection of 20th century author W.G. Sebald's fiction and his acclaim. It investigates his universal appeal and explores themes, issues, and in...

Publisher: University of California PressAuthor(s): Mark LevineIllustration(s): 31 b-w photosNumber of pages: 352Publication date: 2022Dimensions: ...

Publisher: Vintage PublishingAuthor(s): Mark VanhoenackerNumber of pages: 416Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 146 x 223 x 42Cover type: HardbackRe...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

A social, economic, planning, and global history

Reducere. How would the history of Roman Catholic worship look if it were viewed first from the perspective of the "people in the pews" rather than through t...

Beyond the Megacity reconnects to the Latin American tradition of theorizing urbanization from the margins, moving urban theory closer to the compl...

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons IncAuthor(s): R HawkesNumber of pages: 272Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 160 x 236 x 24Cover type: HardbackRedescop...

As cities evolve and resources shift with time, spaces within those cities are often left fallow and abandoned. Cyclical City tells the stories beh...

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers IncAuthor(s): MD, Dr. Steven R GundryNumber of pages: 272Collection: The Plant ParadoxPublication date: 2022Dim...

An unprecedented collection of feminist voices from four millennia of global historyEditor(s): Jessie Kindig

Publisher: Capstone Global Library LtdAuthor(s): Cindy L. RodriguezNumber of pages: 32Collection: Deadly ExpeditionsPublication date: 2022Dimension...

Despite popular images of priests seeking enlightenment in snow-covered mountain temples, the central concern of Japanese Buddhism is death. This t...

Reducere. Many visitors to Mexico City's 1886 Electricity Exposition were amazed by their experience of the event, which included magnetic devices, electroni...

A monumental history of the nineteenth century, The Transformation of the World offers a panoramic and multifaceted portrait of a world in transiti...

Reducere. The gripping history of Afro-Latino migrants who conspired to overthrow a colonial monarchy, end slavery, and secure full citizenship in their home...

DescriptionThroughout the ages and across every continent, people have struggled against those in power and raised their voices in protest--rallyin...

Explores the historical, philosophical, and intellectual development of global liberalism since the nineteenth century in the context of the deploy...