Cities, Words and Images, P. Lombardo

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: John P. Pelissero (Editor)
Название: Cities, politics, and policy :
ISBN: 1568026862 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781568026862
Издательство: Sage Publications
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Описание: Through comparative analysis of key issues in urban studies - how city managers share power with mayors, how spending policies affect economic development, and how school politics impact education policy - this title lets students see how scholars discern patterns and formulate conclusions to offer theoretical and practical insights.

Автор: McDonald Joseph P., Cities and Schools Research Gr
Название: American School Reform: What Works, What Fails, and Why
ISBN: 022612472X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780226124728
Издательство: Wiley
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Описание: Dissecting twenty years of educational politics in our nation`s largest cities, this book evaluates the half-billion-dollar Annenberg Challenge - launched in 1994 - alongside many other large-scale reform efforts that have taken place in New York, Chicago, Philadelphia, and the San Francisco Bay Area.

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.

Автор: Edited by Ruth Glancy
Название: Charles Dickens`s A Tale of Two Cities
ISBN: 041528760X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780415287609
Издательство: Taylor&Francis
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Описание: Since its publication in 1859, A Tale of Two Cities has remained the best-known fictional recreation of the French Revolution, and one of Charles Dickens`s most exciting novels. A Tale of Two Cities blends a moving love story with the familiar figures of the Revolution - Bastille prisoners, a starving Parisian mob, and an indolent aristocracy.

Автор: P. Lombardo
Название: Cities, Words and Images
ISBN: 1349402060 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781349402069
Издательство: Springer
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Описание: The city is an essential theme of modernity in literature, architecture, photography and film. Lombardo reflects on the way in which the changes in human perception created by urbanization are expressed in the various arts, in terms of form and content.

Автор: Ole Elgstr?m
Название: Images and Strategies for Autonomy
ISBN: 0792365712 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780792365716
Издательство: Springer
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Описание: How do small states approach their security problems? Using 19th century Swedish security policy as an example, it is argued here that small states, in their pursuit of security and autonomy, face a dilemma between abandonment and entrapment, leading to a choice between balancing between great powers or making an approach to one of them.

Название: Ghetto Images in Twentieth-Century American Literature
ISBN: 1349297070 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781349297078
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Описание: This book explores how six American writers have artistically responded to the racialization of U.S. frostbelt cities in the twentieth century. Using the critical tools of spatial theory, critical race theory, urban history and sociology, Simpson explains how these writers imagine the subjective response to the race-making power of space.

Автор: H. Dick; P. Rimmer
Название: Cities, Transport and Communications
ISBN: 0333553012 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780333553015
Издательство: Springer
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Описание: Explains the emergence of modern Southeast Asia and its increasing integration into the world economy by showing how technological change, economic development and politics have transformed the flows of goods, people and information.

Автор: C. Winks
Название: Symbolic Cities in Caribbean Literature
ISBN: 1349376884 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781349376889
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Описание: Utilizing cross-cultural strands, this comparative study analyzes Caribbean literary representations of magic and invisible cities reworking the notion of the city as both instituted social space and imaginary community.