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The City of London: Continuity and Change, 1850–1990

The City of London: Continuity and Change, 1850–1990...

Author: Ronald C. Michie
ISBN: 9781349123247
Format: Paperback
$169.00

What is the City of London? If pressed some will suggest that it means the entire UK financial sector while others...  Read More >>

City, Class and Trade: Social and Economic Change in the Third World

City, Class and Trade: Social and Economic Change in...

Author: Nigel Harris
ISBN: 9781850433019
Format: Hardback
$229.68

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Chinatown: Most Time, Hard Time

Chinatown: Most Time, Hard Time

Author: Chalsa Loo
ISBN: 9780275938932
Format: Hardback
$140.00

It provides data on the major domains of life for all Americans, but particularly for ethnic Americans: neighborhood,...  Read More >>

Gentrification and Urban Change

Gentrification and Urban Change

Author: Ray Hutchinson
ISBN: 9781559380683
Format: Hardback
$141.95

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Telecity: Information Technology and Its Impact on City Form

Telecity: Information Technology and Its Impact on City...

Author: Tarik Fathy
ISBN: 9780275938147
Format: Hardback
$110.00

This study examines the growth of the information society and the impact of its technologies on city form and urban...  Read More >>

Giving up on School: Student Dropouts and Teacher Burnouts

Giving up on School: Student Dropouts and Teacher Burnouts...

Author: Margaret Diane LeCompte ,  Anthony Gary Dworkin
ISBN: 9780803934917
Format: Paperback
$85.99

The authors discuss how educational alienation is created and fostered by factors in the school, the community and...  Read More >>

The Pentagon and the Cities

The Pentagon and the Cities

Author: Andrew Martin Kirby
ISBN: 9780803938465
Format: Paperback
$268.00

This volume focuses on the profound impact of defence spending on those local and regional economies that have become...  Read More >>

City and Country in the Ancient World

City and Country in the Ancient World

Author: John Rich ,  Andrew Wallace-Hadrill (British School at Rome)
ISBN: 9781280106200
Format: Electronic book text
$242.75

This volume of papers by influential historians and archaeologists explores the city-country relationship in the...  Read More >>

Cities and Social Change in Early Modern France

Cities and Social Change in Early Modern France

Author: Professor Philip Benedict (Institute of Reformation History, University of Geneva)
ISBN: 9781280148958
Format: Electronic book text
$226.91

The major changes experienced by France's cities over the period from the end of the middle ages to the eve of the...  Read More >>

Company Town, The: Architecture and Society in the Early Industrial Age

Company Town, The: Architecture and Society in the Early...

Author: John Garner
ISBN: 9781280525834
Format: Electronic book text
$302.94

Company towns - those associated with textiles, mining, or tool manufacturing, for example - can be found worldwide...  Read More >>

Garden City, The: Past, Present and Future

Garden City, The: Past, Present and Future

Author: Ward
ISBN: 9781280226526
Format: Electronic book text
$528.00

This examination of a phenomenon of 19th century planning traces the origins, implementation, international transference...  Read More >>

Facts about the Cities

Facts about the Cities

Author: Allan Carpenter ,  Evander Holyfield
ISBN: 9780824208004
Format: Hardback
$303.60

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Ming Dai Cheng Shi Yan Jiu

Ming Dai Cheng Shi Yan Jiu

Author: Dacheng Han
ISBN: 9787300009841
Format: Book
$40.92

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Zhong Wai Cheng Shi Zhi Shi CI Dian

Zhong Wai Cheng Shi Zhi Shi CI Dian

Author: Guoguang Liu
ISBN: 9787507403275
Format: Book
$84.48

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The Company Town: Architecture and Society in the Early Industrial Age

The Company Town: Architecture and Society in the Early...

Author: John Garner
ISBN: 9786610525836
Format: Electronic book text
$333.25

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I Have Built You an Exalted House

I Have Built You an Exalted House

Author: Victor Hurowitz
ISBN: 9781281803559
Format: Electronic book text
$469.92

This close synchronic analysis of Exodus 1-2 looks at how the pericope's structure, language, focalization and management...  Read More >>

Judahite Burial Practices and Beliefs about the Dead

Judahite Burial Practices and Beliefs about the Dead...

Author: Elizabeth Bloch-Smith
ISBN: 9781281803603
Format: Electronic book text
$356.40

The family tomb as a physical claim to the patrimony, the attributed powers of the dead and the prospect of post-mortem...  Read More >>

From Mycenae to Constantinople: The Evolution of the Ancient City

From Mycenae to Constantinople: The Evolution of the...

Author: Richard Tomlinson
ISBN: 9781280322679
Format: Electronic book text
$221.63

An account of the architecture of a selection of ancient cities not merely from the historical point of view, but...  Read More >>

Third World Cities

Third World Cities

Author: Dr John Kasarda (Communications, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill) ,  Dr John Kasarda (Communications, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)
ISBN: 9781322421780
Format: Electronic book text
$167.64

Gathering an internationally renowned group of scholars in urbanization and development studies, this work explores...  Read More >>

The City of London: Continuity and Change, 1850–1990

The City of London: Continuity and Change, 1850–1990...

Author: Ronald C. Michie
ISBN: 9780333550250
Format: Hardback
$238.00

What is the City of London? The term is in everyday use but few are willing to define it. The author demonstrates...  Read More >>

William Dorsey's Philadelphia and Ours: On the Past and Future of the Black City in America

William Dorsey's Philadelphia and Ours: On the Past...

Author: Roger Lane (Professor of History, Professor of History, Haverford College)
ISBN: 9780195065664
Format: Hardback
$399.00

Focusing on material collected by William Henry Dorsey, Philadelphia's first black historian, this study traces...  Read More >>

Cities in the World-System

Cities in the World-System

Author: Resat Kasaba
ISBN: 9780313278938
Format: Hardback
$140.00

In part three the focus shifts back to extra-European zones where the patterns of transformation around cities under...  Read More >>

From Lineage to State: Social Formations of the Mid-First Millenium BC in the Ganga Valley

From Lineage to State: Social Formations of the Mid-First...

Author: Romila Thapar
ISBN: 9780195626759
Format: Paperback
$20.95

This is an attempt to define Indian society in the crucial period of the mid-first millennium BC and in the seminal...  Read More >>

City Images: Perspectives from Literature, Philosophy and Film

City Images: Perspectives from Literature, Philosophy...

Author: Mary Ann Caws
ISBN: 9782881244643
Format: Paperback
$64.00

A collection of essays which offer glimpses of the city as it appears in films, novels, photographs, poems, architecture,...  Read More >>

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