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Readers in English Urban History The Eighteenth-Century Town (Paperback)

The eighteenth century represents a critical period in the transition of the English urban history as the town of the early modern era involved into that of the industrial revolution; and since Britain was the first industrial nation this... more

A critical history of the Athanasian creed. Representing the opinions of antients and moderns concerning it: with an account of the manuscripts versions and comments and such ot

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Studies in European Culture and History Representing Masculinity: Male Citizenship in Modern Western Culture (Paperback)

This book explores the role of masculinity in shaping citizenship in the western world. Can the universal ideal of citizenship be redeemed or is it mired in exclusionary notions of masculinity race and class? The book traces the ideal of citizenship... more

Pre-Owned Flammable Cities: Urban Conflagration and the Making of Modern World (Pre-Owned Paperback 9780299283841) by Greg Bankoff Uwe Lubken Jordan Sand

9780299283841. Good condition. Trade paperback. Language: English. Pages: 368. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 368 p. Contains: Illustrations. In most cities today fire has been reduced to a sporadic and isolated threat. But throughout history the... more

Pre-Owned Urban America in the Modern Age: From 1920 to the Present (American History Series): 28 (The American History Series) Paperback

Our books are pre-loved which means they have been read before. We carefully check all our books and believe them to be in a - USED - VERY GOOD Condition condition. If you re not completely satisfied please get in touch & we ll be happy to help.... more

Salinas: A History of Race and Resilience in an Agricultural City (Hardcover)

An ambitious history of a California city that epitomizes the history of race relations in modern America. Although much has been written about the urban-rural divide in America the city of Salinas California like so many other places in the state and... more

Cambridge History of Modern European Thought: The Cambridge History of Modern European Thought: Volume 2 the Twentieth Century (Hardcover)

The Cambridge History of Modern European Thought is an authoritative and comprehensive exploration of the themes thinkers and movements that shaped our intellectual world in the late-eighteenth and nineteenth century. Representing both individual... more

Cambridge History of Modern European Thought: The Cambridge History of Modern European Thought: Volume 1 the Nineteenth Century (Hardcover)

The Cambridge History of Modern European Thought is an authoritative and comprehensive exploration of the themes thinkers and movements that shaped our intellectual world in the late-eighteenth and nineteenth century. Representing both individual... more

Cambridge History of Modern European Thought: The Cambridge History of Modern European Thought: Volume 2 the Twentieth Century (Paperback)

The Cambridge History of Modern European Thought is an authoritative and comprehensive exploration of the themes thinkers and movements that shaped our intellectual world in the late-eighteenth and nineteenth century. Representing both individual... more

Christianity and Society in the Modern World: European Religion in the Age of Great Cities: 1830-1930 (Paperback)

Europe in the nineteenth century saw spectacular growth in the size and number of cities and in the proportion of the population living in urban areas. Many contemporaries thought that this social revolution would bring about an equally dramatic change... more

Routledge Research in Early Modern History: Guilds Labour and the Urban Body Politic: Fabricating Community in the Southern Netherlands 1300-1800 (Hardcover)

This book presents a new view on the relation between labour and community through a focus on craft guilds. In the Southern Netherlands occupational guilds were both powerful and governed by manufacturing masters enabling the latter to imprint their... more

Pre-Owned Yankee Merchants and the Making of the Urban West: The Rise and Fall of Antebellum St. Louis (Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Modern History) Paperback

9780521522359. Pre-Owned: Good condition. Trade paperback. Language: English. Trade paperback (US). Contains: Unspecified. Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Modern History. Includes unspecified. Intended for professional and scholarly audience. By the... more

James Sprunt Studies in History and Political Science: Urban Decline in Early Modern Germany: Schwäbisch Hall and Its Region 1650-1750 (Paperback)

During the Middle Ages southwest Germany was one of the most prosperous areas of central Europe but the Thirty Years War brought devastating social and economic dislocation to the region. Focusing on the town of SchwNbisch Hall Terence McIntosh... more

A History of Modern Urban Operations (Paperback)

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Pre-Owned London: Water and the Making of Modern City (History Urban Environment) Hardcover

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American History: Urban America in the Modern Age: 1920 to the Present (Paperback)

Since the appearance of Urban America in the Modern Age in 1987 the study of American cities has flourished. In this long-awaited second edition Carl Abbott draws on the recent works of historians who have explored issues of urban growth municipal... more

Studies in European Urban History (1100-1800): Urban Public Debts Urban Government and the Market for Annuities in Western Europe (14th-18th Centuries) (Series #3) (Paperback)

The essays in this volume offer a state-of-the-art analysis of a heretofore somewhat neglected part of financial history: the way in which urban governments in Western Europe during the late Middle Ages and early Modern Times handled the public debts... more

Perspectives in Economic and Social History: An Urban History of the Plague (Hardcover)

As a medical economic spiritual and demographic crisis plague affected practically every aspect of an early modern community whether on a local regional or national scale. Its study therefore affords opportunities for the reassessment of many aspects... more

Early Modern Literature in History: Writing Early Modern London: Memory Text and Community (Hardcover)

Writing Early Modern London explores how urban community in London was experienced imagined and translated into textual form. Ranging from previously unstudied manuscripts to major works by Middleton Stow and Whitney it examines how memory became a key... more

Early Modern Literature in History: Writing Early Modern London: Memory Text and Community (Paperback)

Writing Early Modern London explores how urban community in London was experienced imagined and translated into textual form. Ranging from previously unstudied manuscripts to major works by Middleton Stow and Whitney it examines how memory became a key... more

Finding Meaning: An Existential Quest in Post-Modern Israel (Hardcover)

From its trendy urban centers to its ancient deserts Israel s history is based on the rich heritage of traditions and contradictions. It is known as a start-up nation with hospitable and warm interpersonal relationships and a steady high-ranked... more

History and the Disciplines: The Reclassification of Knowledge in Early Modern Europe (Hardcover)

A collection of essays from some of the world s leading intellectual historians representing an international spectrum of research into the history of philosophy intellect science and music. This collection of essays addresses in specific historical... more

Aesthetic Science : Representing Nature in the Royal Society of London 1650-1720 (Edition 1) (Hardcover)

The scientists affiliated with the early Royal Society of London have long been regarded as forerunners of modern empiricism rejecting the symbolic and moral goals of Renaissance natural history in favor of plainly representing the world as it really... more

Uncovering the Past: Documentary Readers in American History: The Modern American Metropolis (Paperback)

The Modern American Metropolis: A Documentary Reader introduces the history of American cities and suburbs through a collection of original source materials that historians have long used to make sense of the urban experience. Carefully integrates and... more

Routledge Studies in the Modern History Hagi - A Feudal Capital in Tokugawa Japan (Paperback)

The western Japanese city of Hagi is the town in Japan which has preserved the greatest level of Tokugawa period (1600-1868) urban and architectural fabric. As such it is a major tourist destination for both Japanese and non-Japanese visitors. The city... more

Women and Men in History Gender Power and Privilege in Early Modern Europe: 1500 - 1700 (Paperback)

Surveying court life and urban life warfare religion and peace this book provides a comprehensive history of how gender was experienced in early modern Europe. Gender Power and Privilege in Early Modern Europe shows how definitions of sexuality and... more

Routledge Studies in Cultural History Imaginary Athens: Urban Space and Memory in Berlin Tokyo and Seoul Book 97 (Hardcover)

This book comprehensively examines architecture urban planning and civic perception in three modern cities as they transform into national capitals through an entangled transnational process that involves an imaginative geography based on embellished... more

Pre-Owned Crime and Punishment in Istanbul: 1700-1800 (Paperback) 0520262212 9780520262218

This vividly detailed revisionist history exposes the underworld of the largest metropolis of the early modern Mediterranean and through it the entire fabric of a complex multicultural society. Fariba Zarinebaf maps the history of crime and punishment... more

Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books Smell Detectives: An Olfactory History of Nineteenth-Century Urban America (Paperback)

What did nineteenth-century cities smell like? And how did odors matter in the formation of a modern environmental consciousness? Smell Detectives follows the nineteenth-century Americans who used their noses to make sense of the sanitary challenges... more

Pre-Owned The City Assembled: The Elements of Urban Form Through History (Hardcover) 0821219308 9780821219300

The City Assembled is a history of the elements of cities: streets public places urban divisions (religious political and social) and the frontiers of city and countryside. Kostof follows the evolution of city components to modern times. He discusses... more

Queer Sites: Gay Urban Histories Since 1600 (Paperback)

There are areas which can be described as gay space in that they have many lesbians and gays in the population. Queerspace: A History of Urban Sexuality edited by David Higgs offers a history of gay space in the major cities form the early modern... more

Oxford Oral History Soviet Baby Boomers: An Oral History of Russia s Cold War Generation (Paperback)

Donald Raleigh s Soviet Baby Boomers traces the collapse of the Soviet Union and the transformation of Russia into a modern highly literate urban society through the fascinating life stories of the country s first post-World War II Cold War generation.... more

The Modern American West: The Metropolitan Frontier : Cities in the Modern American West (Paperback)

This Choice Outstanding Academic Title and winner of the Best Book in North American Urban History (Urban History Association) offers the first comprehensive overview of urban growth in the American West. more

Clarendon Paperbacks Town City and Nation: England in 1850-1914 (Paperback)

By the outbreak of the First World War England had become the world s first mass urban society. In just over sixty years the proportion of town-dwellers had risen from 50 to 80 percent and during this period many of the most crucial developments in... more

Early Mesopotamia: Society and Economy at the Dawn of History (Paperback)

The roots of our modern world lie in the civilization of Mesopotamia which saw the development of the first urban society and the invention of writing. The cuneiform texts reveal the technological and social innovations of Sumer and Babylonia as... more

Lifted: A Cultural History of the Elevator (Hardcover)

Before skyscrapers forever transformed the landscape of the modern metropolis the conveyance that made them possible had to be created. Invented in New York in the 1850s the elevator became an urban fact of life on both sides of the Atlantic by the... more

Routledge Studies in Physical Geography and Environment: History and Climate Change: A Eurocentric Perspective (Paperback)

History and Climate Change is a balanced and comprehensive overview of the links between climate and man s advance from early to modern times. It draws upon demographic economic urban religious and military perspectives. It is a synthesis of the many... more