Flammable Cities

Author : Greg Bankoff,Uwe Lübken,Jordan Sand
Publisher : University of Wisconsin Pres
Page : 419 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2012-01-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780299283834

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Flammable Cities by Greg Bankoff,Uwe Lübken,Jordan Sand Pdf

In most cities today, fire has been reduced to a sporadic and isolated threat. But throughout history the constant risk of fire has left a deep and lasting imprint on almost every dimension of urban society. This volume, the first truly global study of urban conflagration, shows how fire has shaped cities throughout the modern world, from Europe to the imperial colonies, major trade entrepôts, and non-European capitals, right up to such present-day megacities as Lagos and Jakarta. Urban fire may hinder commerce or even spur it; it may break down or reinforce barriers of race, class, and ethnicity; it may serve as a pretext for state violence or provide an opportunity for displays of state benevolence. As this volume demonstrates, the many and varied attempts to master, marginalize, or manipulate fire can turn a natural and human hazard into a highly useful social and political tool.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 540 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2013-08
Category : Delegated legislation
ISBN : UCR:31210024751420

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Federal Register by Anonim Pdf

Author : Petra Y. Kuppinger
Publisher : Waveland Press
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2023-03-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781478651079

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Cities and Spaces by Petra Y. Kuppinger Pdf

Global cities like New York City and Tokyo, national capitals like Cairo and Dakar, and regional centers like Bangalore and Barcelona are powerful economic, political, and cultural hubs. Cities and Spaces surveys the development, transformation, and role of cities in a globalized world while exploring the history, methods, classic texts, and current discussions in urban anthropology. Chapters examine urban dwellers’ lives, work, culture, and experiences in different yet closely linked cities worldwide. This concise introductory treatment illustrates how anthropologists address a wide range of questions like: What does it mean to work in an informal market in Lomé? How does gentrification affect a Mexican American neighborhood in Chicago? How do people experience urban environmental degradation and injustice? How do race and ethnicity shape the experiences of urbanites? How do immigrants create new urban religious communities?

Author : Robert Peckham
Publisher : Hong Kong University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2015-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9789888208449

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Empires of Panic by Robert Peckham Pdf

Empires of Panic is the first book to explore how panics have been historically produced, defined, and managed across different colonial, imperial, and post-imperial settings—from early nineteenth-century East Asia to twenty-first-century America. Contributors consider panic in relation to colonial anxieties, rumors, indigenous resistance, and crises, particularly in relation to epidemic disease. How did Western government agencies, policymakers, planners, and other authorities understand, deal with, and neutralize panics? What role did evolving technologies of communication play in the amplification of local panics into global events? Engaging with these questions, the book challenges conventional histories to show how intensifying processes of intelligence gathering did not consolidate empire, but rather served to produce critical uncertainties—the uneven terrain of imperial panic. Robert Peckham is associate professor in the Department of History and co-director of the Centre for the Humanities and Medicine at the University of Hong Kong. "Charting the relays of rumor and knowledge that stoke colonial fears of disease, disorder, and disaster, Empires of Panic offers timely and cautionary insight into how viscerally epidemics inflame imperial anxieties, and how words and their communication over new technologies accelerate panic, rally government intervention, and unsettle and entrench the exercise of global power. Relevant a century ago and even more so today." — Nayan Shah, University of Southern California; author ofContagious Divides: Epidemics and Race in San Francisco's Chinatown "Empires generated anxiety as much as ambition. This fine study focuses on anxieties generated by disease. It is the first book of its kind to track shifting forms of panic through different geopolitical regimes and imperial formations over the course of two centuries. Working across medical and imperial histories, it is a major contribution to both." — Andrew S. Thompson, University of Exeter; author of Empire and Globalisation: Networks of People, Goods and Capital in the British World, c. 1850–1914(with Gary B. Magee)

Author : Tim Edensor,Mark Jayne
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 459 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2012-03-12
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781136629754

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Urban Theory Beyond the West by Tim Edensor,Mark Jayne Pdf

Since the late eighteenth century, academic engagement with political, economic, social, cultural and spatial changes in our cities has been dominated by theoretical frameworks crafted with reference to just a small number of cities. This book offers an important antidote to the continuing focus of urban studies on cities in ‘the Global North’. Urban Theory Beyond the West contains twenty chapters from leading scholars, raising important theoretical issues about cities throughout the world. Past and current conceptual developments are reviewed and organized into four parts: ‘De-centring the City’ offers critical perspectives on re-imagining urban theoretical debates through consideration of the diversity and heterogeneity of city life; ‘Order/Disorder’ focuses on the political, physical and everyday ways in which cities are regulated and used in ways that confound this ordering; ‘Mobilities’ explores the movements of people, ideas and policy in cities and between them and ‘Imaginaries’ investigates how urbanity is differently perceived and experienced. There are three kinds of chapters published in this volume: theories generated about urbanity ‘beyond the West’; critiques, reworking or refining of ‘Western’ urban theory based upon conceptual reflection about cities from around the world and hybrid approaches that develop both of these perspectives. Urban Theory Beyond the West offers a critical and accessible review of theoretical developments, providing an original and groundbreaking contribution to urban theory. It is essential reading for students and practitioners interested in urban studies, development studies and geography.

Author : Ronald Schaffer
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1988-09-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9780195056402

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Wings of Judgment by Ronald Schaffer Pdf

A disturbing and perceptive study of the strategy, outcome, and choices behind the American bombing policies of World War II. The author analyses the explanations and moral arguments used by America's military leaders to justify the attacks on Dresden, Berlin, and Hiroshima.

Author : Michael George Zabetakis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1960
Category : Petroleum refineries
ISBN : UOM:39015078467274

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Explosion of Dephlegmator at Cities Service Oil Company Refinery, Ponca City, Okla., 1959 by Michael George Zabetakis Pdf

Author : John M. Carroll
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2020-02-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781538136300

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Canton Days by John M. Carroll Pdf

Canton Days offers the first comprehensive history of the British community in China from the mid-1700s to the end of the Opium War in 1842. During that period, Britons and other Westerners in China were restricted to trading and living in a tiny section of the city of Canton and the small Portuguese territory of Macao. At Canton, trade between China and the West was conducted through a group of Chinese merchant houses specially licensed by the Qing government. British encounters with China in this period have been seen mainly as a prelude to war, and Britons in China usually have been characterized as single-minded traders determined to open the Middle Kingdom by any means or missionaries bent on converting the Chinese “heathen” to Christianity. John M. Carroll challenges common assumptions about the British presence in China as he traces the lives and times of the expatriates at the heart of this vital center of trade and exchange. The author draws on a rich trove of archival sources to bring Canton and its leading figures to life, concluding with the deaths of three Britons, each revealing British concerns and anxieties about being in China. Written in a clear and lively style, his book will appeal to all readers interested in British imperial history, early modern Chinese history, and the worlds of expatriate and sojourning communities.

Author : Marcus Doel
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2017-05-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781526413888

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Geographies of Violence by Marcus Doel Pdf

We experience violence all our lives, from that very first scream of birth. It has been industrialized and domesticated. Our culture has not become totally accustomed to violence, but accustomed enough. Perhaps more than enough. Geographies of Violence is a critical human geography of the history of violence, from Ancient Rome and Enlightened wars through to natural disasters, animal slaughter, and genocide. Written with incredible insight and flair, this is a thought-provoking text for human geography students and researchers alike.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1002 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1963
Category : Local laws
ISBN : CORNELL:31924069529075

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Local Laws of the Cities, Counties and Villages in the State of New York by Anonim Pdf

Author : John Schofield,Stephen Freeth
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2023-12-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9781803276557

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London’s Waterfront and its World, 1666–1800 by John Schofield,Stephen Freeth Pdf

This volume, covering the period 1666–1800, considers the archaeology of the port of London on a wide scale, from the City down the Thames to Deptford. During this period, with the waterfront at its centre, London became the hub of the new British empire, contributing to the exploitation of people from other lands known as slavery.

Author : Andrew N. Buchanan
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2019-05-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781119366072

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World War II in Global Perspective, 1931-1953 by Andrew N. Buchanan Pdf

A comprehensive review of World War II that offers a global-level analysis Written for academics and students of history, World War II in Global Perspective, 1931-1953 presents a dynamic and global account of the historical events prior to, during, and after World War II. The author—a noted expert on the topic—explores the main theaters of the war and discusses the connections between them. He also examines the impact of the war on areas of the world that are often neglected in historical accounts, including Latin America, sub-Saharan Africa, and the so-called ‘neutral’ countries. This comprehensive text clearly shows how in the struggle against the Axis powers, the United States replaced Britain as the global superpower. The author discusses the Japanese invasion of Manchuria in 1931 and the Korean War (1950-1953) and argues that the core years of the war (1939-1945) cannot be understood without considering the turbulent events that framed them. The text puts World War II in context as a series of large regional conflicts that intersected and overlapped, finally emerging as a genuine “world war” with the formal entry of the United States in late 1941. This vital text: Offers a comprehensive review of World War II that frames it in a global context Gives weight to the economic and political developments of the war Provides a robust account of the main military campaigns Contains illustrations and maps that themselves highlight little-known aspects of the global war

Author : Alison Hope Alkon,Yuki Kato,Joshua Sbicca
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2020-07-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781479878239

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A Recipe for Gentrification by Alison Hope Alkon,Yuki Kato,Joshua Sbicca Pdf

Honorable Mention, 2021 Edited Collection Book Award, given by the Association for the Study of Food and Society How gentrification uproots the urban food landscape, and what activists are doing to resist it From hipster coffee shops to upscale restaurants, a bustling local food scene is perhaps the most commonly recognized harbinger of gentrification. A Recipe for Gentrification explores this widespread phenomenon, showing the ways in which food and gentrification are deeply—and, at times, controversially—intertwined. Contributors provide an inside look at gentrification in different cities, from major hubs like New York and Los Angeles to smaller cities like Cleveland and Durham. They examine a wide range of food enterprises—including grocery stores, restaurants, community gardens, and farmers’ markets—to provide up-to-date perspectives on why gentrification takes place, and how communities use food to push back against displacement. Ultimately, they unpack the consequences for vulnerable people and neighborhoods. A Recipe for Gentrification highlights how the everyday practices of growing, purchasing and eating food reflect the rapid—and contentious—changes taking place in American cities in the twenty-first century.

Author : Frank Ingels
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
Page : 435 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2008-10-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781412237062

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Shabba! by Frank Ingels Pdf

A novel of suspense, intrigue and technological secrets. The aftermath of Desert Storm left a horrid suspicion of something gone terribly awry with our air combat capability. The success of Desert Storm was blinding and so was the hint of disaster that lay in wait for the next armed conflict. What did the evidence show in the Iraq conflict that so frightened those in the know? How could they prove their suspicions? Even more important, how could they solve the puzzle and find an answer that would allow our air combat power to remain effective? Curt Thomas, one time CIA radar scientist now a little known professor, is tasked to follow the leads and decipher the secrets of the new and awesome radar/missile system that must exist. He was once on the track of something akin but never could make it a working idea. Now he must search intensively for the key that he missed before. Learn why Thomas is led to China and to the keys he must have to protect our aircraft from certain death in the future. The technology is real, the danger is real and the conclusion is unusual and full of twists and turns.

Author : Janna Coomans
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2021-08-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108831772

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Community, Urban Health and Environment in the Late Medieval Low Countries by Janna Coomans Pdf

Explores how preventative health practices shaped urban communities, social ties and living environments in the medieval Low Countries.