Cities of God, Gange

Автор: Dickens Charles
Название: A Tale of Two Cities
ISBN: 0199536236 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780199536238
Издательство: Oxford Academ
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Описание: As the the bicentennary of the French Revolution draws near, Dickens' historical novel serves as a timely reminder of nineteenth-century reactions to that great upheaval. Set between 1757 and 1793, A Tale of Two Cities views the causes and effects of the Revolution from an essentially private point of view, showing how private experience relates to public history. Dickens' characters are fictional, and their political activity is minimal, yet all are drawntowards the Paris of the Terror, and all become caught up in its web of human suffering and human sacrifice.

This edition includes extensive explanatory notes giving crucial background information about the Revolution and Dickens' sources. `the best story I have written' Charles Dickens ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.

Автор: Howe, Daniel Walker
Название: What hath god wrought
ISBN: 0195392434 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780195392432
Издательство: Oxford Academ
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Описание: Historian Howe illuminates the period of American history from the battle of New Orleans to the end of the Mexican-American War, an era when the United States expands to the Pacific and wins control over the richest part of the North American continent.

Автор: Gange
Название: Cities of God
ISBN: 1316625656 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781316625651
Издательство: Cambridge Academ
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Описание: In unearthing the cities of the Bible, archaeology transformed nineteenth-century thinking on the truth of Christianity and its place in modern cities. This book shows how anxieties about Christianity`s fate in the urban world made cities from Jerusalem to Rome contested models for the role of Christianity in modern culture.

Автор: Sweet
Название: Cities and the Grand Tour
ISBN: 1107529204 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107529205
Издательство: Cambridge Academ
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Описание: The Grand Tour introduced British travellers to the urban environments of Florence, Rome, Naples and Venice at a time when unprecedented urbanisation was taking place at home. This fascinating study examines how cities were experienced, described and represented in travel literature and how the image of a city evolved.

Автор: Caracausi
Название: Commercial Networks and European Cities, 1400–1800
ISBN: 1848934505 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781848934504
Издательство: Taylor&Francis
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Описание: Merchant networks generated trade and the exchange of goods between the cities of early modern Europe. This collection of essays analyses these commercial networks, focusing on the roles of kinship, origin, religion and business in creating and maintaining urban economies.

Автор: Griffiths John
Название: Imperial Culture in Antipodean Cities, 1880-1939
ISBN: 1137385723 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781137385727
Издательство: Springer
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Описание: Drawing on a wealth of primary and secondary sources, this book explores how far imperial culture penetrated antipodean city institutions. It argues that far from imperial saturation, the city `Down Under` was remarkably untouched by the Empire.

Автор: Geppert Alexander C T
Название: Fleeting Cities
ISBN: 1137358327 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781137358325
Издательство: Springer
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Описание: Imperial expositions held in fin-de-siecle London, Paris and Berlin were knots in a world wide web. Conceptualizing expositions as meta-media, Fleeting Cities constitutes a transnational and transdisciplinary investigation into how modernity was created and displayed, consumed and disputed in the European metropolis around 1900.

Автор: Andrew Lees
Название: Cities and the Making of Modern Europe, 1750–1914
ISBN: 0521548225 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780521548229
Издательство: Cambridge Academ
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Описание: This book is a major survey of urbanization and the making of modern Europe from the mid-eighteenth century to the First World War. It explores the causes, course and consequences of the urban explosion Europe experienced during these years, linking urban growth to industrialization, migration, and the growth of colonial empires.