Описание: The familiar image of Los Angeles as a metropolis built for the automobile is crumbling. This title presents the history of this system by drawing on archival documents, contemporary news accounts, and interviews with many of the key players to provide critical behind-the-scenes accounts of the people and forces that shaped the system.
Автор: Brown Название: City Versus Countryside in Mao`s China ISBN: 1107424542 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107424548 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 5069.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: The gap between those living in the city and those in the countryside remains one of China`s most intractable problems. This powerful work of grassroots history traces the origins of China`s rural-urban divide back to the Mao Zedong era. Harrowing accounts reveal how Chinese people fought back against policies that pitted city dwellers against villagers.
Описание: Jamaican activist Marcus Garvey (1887-1940) organized the Universal Negro Improvement Association in Harlem in 1917. By the early 1920s, his program of African liberation and racial uplift had attracted millions of supporters, both in the United States and abroad. The Age of Garvey presents an expansive global history of the movement that came to b
Автор: Banham, Reyner Название: Los Angeles ISBN: 0520260155 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780520260153 Издательство: Wiley Рейтинг: Цена: 3960.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Examines the built environment of Los Angeles, looking at its manifestations of popular taste and industrial ingenuity, as well as its traditional modes of residential and commercial building. This title also examines `four ecologies` in the ways Angelenos relate to the beach, the freeways, the flatlands, and the foothills.
Автор: Widell Jr Robert W Название: Birmingham and the Long Black Freedom Struggle ISBN: 1137340959 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781137340955 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 12577.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Birmingham, Alabama looms large in the history of the twentieth-century black freedom struggle, but to date historians have mostly neglected the years after 1963. Here, author Robert Widell explores the evolution of Birmingham black activism into the 1970s, providing a valuable local perspective on the "long" black freedom struggle.
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