What is Urban History?

Urban history is a well-established and flourishing field of historical research. Written by a leading scholar, this short introduction demonstrate...

Rosemary Wakeman's original survey text comprehensively explores modern European urban history from 1815 to the present day. It provides a journey ...

Reducere. The south is known for the beautiful plantations sitting on the front porch talking to family and friends while drinking a tall cold glass of tea. ...

The south is known for the beautiful plantations sitting on the front porch talking to family and friends while drinking a tall cold glass of tea. ...

DescriptionThe first guide to urban birding in the UK, from The Urban Birder himself, David LindoUrban birding is fast becoming ornithology's new r...

Reducere. While Savannah's famous urban plan is rightly renowned in many studies of urban history, what brings streams of tourists and architects to the city...

Reducere. An enthralling world history of food from prehistoric times to the present. A favorite of gastronomes and history buffs alike, Food in History is p...

DescriptionCitizenship is at the heart of our contemporary world but it is a particular vision of national citizenship forged in the French Revolut...

DescriptionHow photography and a modernizing Berlin informed an urban image--and one another--in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries ...

Reducere. "You expect the city of Al Capone and what you find are pleasant boulevards coursing up and down between the neo-classical buildings of the 1893 Un...

From its origins as a primitive Dutch outpost to the sprawling urban complex it is today, the defining characteristic of New York has been constant...

African-Americans have long confronted the challenge of dignity destruction caused by white supremacy. While many have found meaning and restoratio...

Reducere. In the highly acclaimed The Geography of Nowhere, James Howard Kunstler declared suburbia "a tragic landscape" and fueled a fierce debate over how ...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Jonathan Riley-SmithFocusing on the inner workings of the First Crusade in a way that no other work has done, The First Cru...

Feminist City is an ongoing experiment in living differently, living better, and living more justly in an urban world. We live in the city of men. ...

Reducere. DescriptionThe Queen of the Coast. The World's Playground. The Casino Capital of the East. They can only describe Atlantic City, New Jersey. Belove...

Reducere. In the late fall of 1095 Pope Urban II gave a speech in Clermont, France and set all of Europe into motion. As many as a hundred and fifty thousand...

Reducere. Although it has been called "Little Hungary" or "Little Budapest, " Cleveland's Buckeye Road neighborhood exceeds that description. A more apt moni...

Reducere. DescriptionRock 'n Roll is the first music to span generations. What youth enjoyed in the '20s was ignored in the '30s. Music from the '30s was ign...

Reducere. The time seems ripe for the greening of cities: green roofs and walls, planted pavements, shared or therapeutic gardens... Is the city discovering ...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Supreme UnderstandingIn this book, you'll learn about the history of Black people. I don't mean the history you learned in ...

Reducere. In this book, you'll learn about the history of Black people. I don't mean the history you learned in school, which most likely began with slavery ...

Reducere. In the early 1950s, Pruitt-Igoe, a vast public housing project, arose on 57 acres on the near north side of St. Louis. Barely 20 years after constr...

Reducere. What a time! Philadelphia from the Roaring 20s to the boom years of the 1950s and 60s, when cash was king and there were always sharpies and racket...

Reducere. Every morning, the architect and writer Michael Sorkin walks downtown from his Greenwich Village apartment through Washington Square to his Tribeca...

Reducere. What is paradise? Before 1969, land that would eventually become the City of Palm Coast was considered by some as nothing more than a "big pine-cov...

Reducere. We know racism is entrenched in our systems and institutions, but what about our cities and public spaces?In The Diaspora of Belonging, author Jay ...

Reducere. In this field guide to the future, esteemed Harvard University botanist Peter Del Tredici unveils the plants that will become even more dominant in...

Reducere. Southwest Washington, D.C., is a defined neighborhood even without a proper name; the quadrant has a clear border southwest of the U.S. Capitol Bui...

Reducere. Beautifully written and deeply researched, Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments examines the revolution of black intimate life that unfolded in Phi...

Clasp is award-winning Irish poet Doireann N Ghr ofa's first English-language collection of poems. In three sections entitled 'Clasp', 'Cleave' and...

Reducere. When you're in West Portal and the adjacent Forest Hill and St. Francis Wood, it's hard to believe you're still in San Francisco. These quiet and p...

Reducere. In 1903, successful candy maker Milton Hershey began a new enterprise that many people thought was doomed. He planned to build the biggest chocolat...

Reducere. How much do you know about the Tar Heel State? There's so much to learn about North Carolina that even natives of the state don't know. In this tri...

Reducere. What became our nation's first capital, Philadelphia is a city full of history that is vital to the development of the United States of America. It...

In 1904, Assiniboine Park was conceived as a people's playground, a place devoid of commercial amusements where all classes of Winnipeggers could r...

Bicycling advocates envision a future in which bikes are a widespread daily form of transportation. While many global cities are seeing the number ...

Reducere. El Zarape Press presents its first collection of poetry by the eclectic Daniel Garc a Ordaz, The Poet Mariachi, "the voice of the Rio Grande Valley...

Reducere. Hip Hop Truth for the Art and Pulse of America This cultural brilliance of sound presented a voice and mindset detailing life growing up in the str...

Reducere. Hip Hop Truth for the Art and Pulse of America This cultural brilliance of sound presented a voice and mindset detailing life growing up in the str...

Reducere. One of the phrases that has been used to describe Chicago's Southeast Side is "smokestacks and steeples." The community initially developed because...

Reducere. In Walkscapes Francesco Careri explores the act of walking, taking a deeper look at three important moments of passage in art history-all absolutel...

Reducere. DescriptionWant to learn more about the state of Ohio? How much do you really know about the Buckeye State? There's so much to learn about the stat...

From weekend homes to get-away cabins in the mountains, by the sea, or in the woods, this architecture embodies our longing for lounging in nature....

Reducere. When Yvonna decides to take revenge on the organization which sold her into sexual slavery, resulting in a lifelong battle with a mental illness, s...

Waikiki, literally "spouting water, " is the name of what was once a lush wetland area where three mountain streams met the Pacific Ocean. Under th...

DescriptionCurious kids itching for real-life Indiana Jones-like intrigue will get swept away with the next book in this spine-tingling series abou...

DescriptionSpace: it's everywhere, all around, a given. It's abstract and yet not abstract at all, because it governs all human relations, shapes t...

Reducere. The Book of Bizarre Truths is a 708-page collection of answers to hundreds of provocative questions covering a vast range of topics. The book s wri...

The Jamaican writer and cultural theorist Sylvia Wynter is best known for her diverse writings that pull together insights from theories in history...

This remarkable volume introduces to the large English-speaking audience what is probably the most coherent segment of twentieth-century American l...

DescriptionDIVERGENT meets OCEAN'S EIGHT in this urban fantasy heist On my seventeenth birthday, I wake up in the hospital to find I just survived ...

Reducere. Winner of the inaugural Max Ritvo Poetry Prize, North American Stadiums is an assured debut collection about grace--the places we search for it, an...

Stray Poems opens with San Francisco Poet Laureate Alejandro Murguia's inaugural address, where he provides a brilliant and impassioned poetic acco...

Reducere. *Includes pictures *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading ..".the ever present menace of inundation." - Sir John Marshal...

Reducere. Molly Brodak's The Cipher is a deft and unsparing study of the limits of knowledge and belief, and of what solace can be found within those limits....

Acclaimed author Francesco Dimitri and award-winning artist Mario Alberti tell a story of extraordinary people who are brought together to uncover ...

The First Socialist Society is the compelling and often tragic history of what Soviet citizens have lived through from 1917 to the present, told wi...

Reducere. An ode to paths and the journeys we take through nature, as told by a gifted writer who stopped driving and rediscovered the joys of traveling by f...

If you've ever felt the blues, sang the blues, or simply love rhythm and blues, Dr. Syleecia Thompson's tell-all book will make you appreciate this...

Reducere. How did the city of St. Paul come to be where and what it is, and what does that show us about the city today? In eight place-based chapters, Bill ...

Reducere. This book is about finding what is notable, historical, quizzical and beautiful in this great city while walking. It is about learning and using pe...

Reducere. As human populations inhabiting cities have grown dramatically, we have lost the ability to understand and even to see the natural world around us....

Acclaimed architect David Adjaye is known for his artistic sensitivity and deft use of space and inexpensive, unexpected materials. With the hindsi...

Reducere. Mists of Akuma is an eastern fantasy noir steampunk campaign setting for use with the newest edition of the world's most popular tabletop roleplayi...

DescriptionAgainst a backdrop of growing cities and a changing approach to how we live, there are many reasons to refurbish a home. Our buildings m...

Reducere. London Falling by Paul Cornell is an urban fantasy twist on the classic police procedural: London cops versus magical creatures of nightPolice offi...

The illustrated history of a seminal New York neighborhood--a story of birth, decline, and renewal, of high design, of grit and glamour--a tale of ...

Choosing between Heaven and Hell isn't as easy as it seems, especially when angels hunt you down and demons save your sorry derrière. After ninetee...

Reducere. What does a real life Mafia enforcer actually do on a day-to-day basis? Born in the Life illustrates the profound treachery which Gene Borrello liv...