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Imperial Metropolis
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Author : Jessica M. Kim
language : en
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Release Date : 2019-08-09
Imperial Metropolis written by Jessica M. Kim and has been published by UNC Press Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-08-09 with History categories.
In this compelling narrative of capitalist development and revolutionary response, Jessica M. Kim reexamines the rise of Los Angeles from a small town to a global city against the backdrop of the U.S.-Mexico borderlands, Gilded Age economics, and American empire. It is a far-reaching transnational history, chronicling how Los Angeles boosters transformed the borderlands through urban and imperial capitalism at the end of the nineteenth century and how the Mexican Revolution redefined those same capitalist networks into the twentieth. Kim draws on archives in the United States and Mexico to argue that financial networks emerging from Los Angeles drove economic transformations in the borderlands, reshaped social relations across wide swaths of territory, and deployed racial hierarchies to advance investment projects across the border. However, the Mexican Revolution, with its implicit critique of imperialism, disrupted the networks of investment and exploitation that had structured the borderlands for sixty years, and reconfigured transnational systems of infrastructure and trade. Kim provides the first history to connect Los Angeles's urban expansionism with more continental and global currents, and what results is a rich account of real and imagined geographies of city, race, and empire.
Imperial Metropolis
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Author : Jessica M. Kim
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2021
Imperial Metropolis written by Jessica M. Kim and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021 with categories.
Anti Imperial Metropolis
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Author : Michael Goebel
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2015-08-25
Anti Imperial Metropolis written by Michael Goebel and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-08-25 with History categories.
The book examines the social life of non-Europeans in Paris in the 1920s and 1930s and describes the political outgrowths of their migration to France. It argues that this migration was crucial for decolonization and the rise of a Third World consciousness after World War II.
London 1900
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Author : Jonathan Schneer
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1999
London 1900 written by Jonathan Schneer and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with History categories.
London's influence and power at the turn of the century is investigated, with a focus on the diverse, contentious, and contradictory personalities of the city who helped define and shape the imperial metropolis. 40 illustrations.
Enlightened Metropolis
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Author : Alexander M. Martin
language : en
Publisher: Oxford Studies in Medieval Eur
Release Date : 2013-03-28
Enlightened Metropolis written by Alexander M. Martin and has been published by Oxford Studies in Medieval Eur this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-03-28 with History categories.
Imperial Russia, is was said, had two capital cities because it had two identities: St. Petersburg was Russia's "window to Europe," whereas Moscow preserved the nation's proud historical traditions. Enlightened Metropolis challenges this myth by exploring how the tsarist regime actually tried to turn Moscow into a bridgehead of Europe in the heartland of Russia. Moscow in the eighteenth century was widely scorned as backward and "Asiatic." The tsars thought it a benighted place that endangered their state's internal security and their effort to make Russia European. Beginning with Catherine the Great, they sought to construct a new Moscow, with European buildings and institutions, a Westernized "middle estate," and a new cultural image as an enlightened metropolis. Drawing on the methodologies of urban, social, institutional, cultural, and intellectual history, Enlightened Metropolis asks: How was the urban environment - buildings, institutions, streets, smells - transformed in the nine decades from Catherine's accession to the death of Nicholas I? How were the lives of the inhabitants changed? Did a "middle estate" come into being? How similar was Moscow's modernization to that of Western cities, and how was it affected by the disastrous occupation by Napoleon? Lastly, how were Moscow and its people imagined by writers, artists, and social commentators in Russia and the West from the Enlightenment to the mid-nineteenth century?
Black London
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Author : Marc Matera
language : en
Publisher: University of California Press
Release Date : 2015-05-05
Black London written by Marc Matera and has been published by University of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-05-05 with History categories.
This vibrant history of London in the twentieth century reveals the city as a key site in the development of black internationalism and anticolonialism. Marc Matera shows the significant contributions of people of African descent to London’s rich social and cultural history, masterfully weaving together the stories of many famous historical figures and presenting their quests for personal, professional, and political recognition against the backdrop of a declining British Empire. A groundbreaking work of intellectual history, Black London will appeal to scholars and students in a variety of areas, including postcolonial history, the history of the African diaspora, urban studies, cultural studies, British studies, world history, black studies, and feminist studies.
The Making Of An Imperial Polity
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Author : Lauren Working
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2020-01-16
The Making Of An Imperial Polity written by Lauren Working and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-01-16 with History categories.
This significant reassessment of Jacobean political culture reveals how colonizing America transformed English civility in early seventeenth-century England. This title is also available as Open Access.
Imperial Metropolis
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Author : Felix Driver
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1997
Imperial Metropolis written by Felix Driver and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997 with History categories.
Imperial Cities
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Author : Felix Driver
language : en
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Release Date : 2003-10-17
Imperial Cities written by Felix Driver and has been published by Manchester University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-10-17 with Architecture categories.
The fifteen essays in this book explore the influence of imperialism in a range of urban centres, including London, Paris, Rome, Vienna, Marseilles, Glasgow and Seville. The first part on "imperial landscapes" is devoted to large-scale architectural schemes and monuments, including the Queen Victoria Memorial in London and the Vittoriano in Rome. In the second part, the focus is on imperial display throughout the city, from spectacular exhibitions and ceremonies, to more private displays of empire in suburban gardens. The final part considers the changing cultural and political identities in the imperial city, looking particularly at nationalism, masculinity and anti-imperialism.
Metropolis
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Author : Ben Wilson
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2020-09-24
Metropolis written by Ben Wilson and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-09-24 with Political Science categories.
From the Sunday Times bestselling author, a dazzling, globe-spanning history of humankind's greatest invention: the city. 'Brilliant...enchanting' Evening Standard 'Exhilarating' New York Times The story of the city is the story of civilisation. From Uruk and Babylon to Baghdad and Venice, and on to London, New York, Shanghai and Lagos, Ben Wilson takes us through millennia on a thrilling global tour of the key urban centres of history. Rich with individual characters, scenes and snapshots of daily life, Metropolis is at once the story of these extraordinary places and of the vital role they have played in making us who we are. 'Panoramic...entertaining and rich in wondrous detail' Tom Holland 'A towering achievement... Reading this book is like visiting an exhilarating city for the first time' Wall Street Journal