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  • Secondary Cities and Urban Networking in the Indian Ocean Realm, c. 1400-1800

    by Charles Argo, John Chaffee, Stewart Gordon, Alexandra Green, James Heitzman, Elizabeth Lambourn, Stephen Morillo, Jay Spaulding, Kenneth M. Swope, Charles Wheeler, John K. Whitmore ...
    Series series Comparative Urban Studies
    With the closure of the overland Silk Road in the fourteenth century following the collapse of the Mongol empire, the Indian Ocean provided the remaining vital link for wider cultural, political, and societal integrations prior to the Western colonial presence. Collectively, these studies explore the history of non-metropolitan urban settings c. 1400-1800 in the Indian Ocean realm, from the ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • The World in the Year 1000

    by James Heitzman, Gerhard Jaritz, Heinz Grotzfeld, Ranabir Chakravarti, Mark Elvin, Ivan ?prajc, Heiko Steuer, Gerhard Hoffmann, Andreas Brockmann0, Ulrich Köhler1, Leslie C. Orr2, Krijnie Ciggaar3, Tarif Khalidi4, Billy Kee Long So5, B.D Chattopadhyaya6, Kenneth R. Hall7 ...
    This volume is a collection of papers originally delivered by an international group of researchers at a conference organized in April 2000 by Dr. F. J. Brüggemeier and Dr. Wolfgang Schenkluhn. The World in the Year 1000 is organized in four thematic sections covering five world regions: Europe, the Islamic world, India, China, and Mesoamerica. All contributions in this volume are original works ... Read more

    $98.99 USD

  • The City in South Asia

    by James Heitzman ...
    Series series Asia's Transformations/Asia's Great Cities
    The macro-region of South Asia – including Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka – today supports one of the world’s greatest concentrations of cities, but as James Heitzman argues in the first comprehensive treatment of urban South Asia, this has been the case for at least 5,000 years.With a strong emphasis on the production of space and periodic excursions into literature, art and ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

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  • Urban Injustice

    How Ghettos Happen

    by David Hilfiker ...
    David Hilfiker has committed his life, both as a writer and a doctor, to people in need, writing about the urban poor with whom he’s spent all his days for the last two decades. In Urban Injustice, he explains in beautiful and simple language how the myth that the urban poor siphon off precious government resources is contradicted by the facts, and how most programs help some of the people some of ... Read more

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  • SPACE, DIFFERENCE, EVERYDAY LIFE:

    Reading Henri Lefebvre

    Edited by Kanishka Goonewardena, Stefan Kipfer, Richard Milgrom, Christian Schmid ...
    In the past fifteen years, Henri Lefebvre’s reputation has catapulted into the stratosphere, and he is now considered an equal to some of the greats of European social theory (Bourdieu, Deleuze, Harvey). In particular, his work has revitalized urban studies, geography and planning via concepts like; the social production of space, the right to the city, everyday life, and global urbanization. ... Read more

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  • New York Night

    The Mystique and Its History

    by Mark Caldwell ...
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  • Deng Xiaoping's Long War

    The Military Conflict between China and Vietnam, 1979-1991

    by Xiaoming Zhang ...
    Series series New Cold War History
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  • Tambora

    Travels to Sumbawa and the Mountain that Changed the World

    by Derek Pugh ...
    In the best tradition of Paul Theroux and J. Maarten Troost, comes Derek Pugh's torrid tale of Sumbawa, and his ascent of the iconic volcano Mt. Tambora, whose 1815 eruption did indeed change the world.Pugh's account of the eruption and its aftermath is masterfully done - clearly the product of much dogged research through archives, scientific journals, as well as conversations with Indonesians ... Read more

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  • Unsettling the Commons

    Social Movements Within, Against, and Beyond Settler Colonialism

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    Drawing on interviews with 51 anti-authoritarian organizers to investigates what it means to struggle for “the commons” within a settler colonial context, Unsettling the Commons (ARP Books) interrogates a very important debate that took place within Occupy camps and is taking place in a multitude of movements in North America around what it means to claim “the commons” on stolen land. Travelling ... Read more

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  • The Cycling City

    Bicycles and Urban America in the 1890s

    by Evan Friss ...
    Series series Historical Studies of Urban America
    Cycling has experienced a renaissance in the United States, as cities around the country promote the bicycle as an alternative means of transportation. In the process, debates about the nature of bicycles—where they belong, how they should be ridden, how cities should or should not accommodate them—have played out in the media, on city streets, and in city halls. Very few people recognize, however ... Read more

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