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The Chicago Of Europe
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Author : Mark Twain
language : en
Publisher: Union Square + ORM
Release Date : 2009-11-03
The Chicago Of Europe written by Mark Twain and has been published by Union Square + ORM this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-11-03 with Humor categories.
A collection of travel yarns, in America and abroad, that only the great humorist could spin. With a sharp eye and an even sharper wit, Mark Twain is the quintessential tour guide to nineteenth-century America and beyond. Dispatches showcasing his caustic, gimlet-eyed humor will take readers on a trot around the globe, from Hawaii to the Holy Land to Berlin (“Europe’s Chicago”), and, of course, along the Mississippi River. This delicious assemblage of 68 tales features Twain’s trademark style—a combination of breezy insouciance and droll barbarism—at its very best. “Wandering around exotic places and among foreign people gives [Twain] the ideal opportunity to be his uniquely engaging self—not quite an innocent or a tramp but a curious, clear-eyed and totally American chronicler abroad: totally game, bewitched and appalled, funny and astounded.” —Kurt Andersen, New York Times-bestselling author of Evil Geniuses
The Streets Of Europe
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Author : Brian Ladd
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2020-09-01
The Streets Of Europe written by Brian Ladd and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-09-01 with History categories.
“This is a sensory history and a sensual story told from street level . . . a clear and powerful account of the transformation of street life in Europe.” —Leora Auslander, author of Taste and Power Merchants’ shouts, jostling strangers, aromas of fresh fish and flowers, plodding horses, and friendly chatter long filled the narrow, crowded streets of the European city. As they developed over many centuries, these spaces of commerce, communion, and commuting framed daily life. At its heyday in the 1800s, the European street was the place where social worlds connected and collided. Brian Ladd recounts a rich social and cultural history of the European city street, tracing its transformation from a lively scene of trade and crowds into a thoroughfare for high-speed transportation. Looking closely at four major cities—London, Paris, Berlin, and Vienna—Ladd uncovers both the joys and the struggles of a past world. The story takes us up to the twentieth century, when the life of the street was transformed as wealthier citizens withdrew from the crowds to seek refuge in suburbs and automobiles. As demographics and technologies changed, so did the structure of cities and the design of streets, significantly shifting our relationships to them. In today’s world of high-speed transportation and impersonal marketplaces, Ladd leads us to consider how we might draw on our history to once again build streets that encourage us to linger. By unearthing the vivid descriptions recorded by amused and outraged contemporaries, Ladd reveals the changing nature of city life, showing why streets matter and how they can contribute to public life. “[A] dazzlingly kaleidoscopic overview of city life, city living, and city dying.” —Judith Flanders, author of The Invention of Murder
Asia In The Making Of Europe
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Author : Donald F. Lach
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1977
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Asia In The Making Of Europe
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Author : Donald Frederick Lach
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 1994
Asia In The Making Of Europe written by Donald Frederick Lach and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994 with Asia categories.
First systematic, inclusive study of the impact of the high civilizations of Asia on the development of modern Western civilization.
Urban Regimes And Strategies
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Author : A. G. Papadopoulos
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 1996-11-15
Urban Regimes And Strategies written by A. G. Papadopoulos and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996-11-15 with History categories.
If a city based its planning decisions on the needs of an international bureaucracy rather than on the traditional needs of local residents and businesses, how would that city change? Alex G. Papadopoulos addresses this question with a detailed study of how the nineteenth-century quartiers of Leopold and Nord-Est in Brussels have been transformed materially and functionally since the European Communities decided to locate their administrative headquarters there in 1957. Drawing on game and rational-choice theories, spatial analysis, and urban morphology studies, Papadopoulos analyzes how the landscape of Brussels's center has evolved over the last three decades under the influence of successive coalitions of local and foreign elites. He describes how international real-estate developers form ephemeral, flexible, and specialized regimes of cooperation with governmental organizations at all levels and with special-interest lobbies to carry out major urban projects, while local neighborhood groups, conservationists, and political factions such as the Green Party oppose them with qualitatively similar regimes of resistance.
The Other Voice In Early Modern Europe
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Author : Margaret L. King
language : fr
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Release Date : 19??
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Asia In The Making Of Europe Volume I
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Author : Donald F. Lach
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2010-01-15
Asia In The Making Of Europe Volume I written by Donald F. Lach and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-01-15 with History categories.
Praised for its scope and depth, Asia in the Making of Europe is the first comprehensive study of Asian influences on Western culture. For volumes I and II, the author has sifted through virtually every European reference to Asia published in the sixteenth-century; he surveys a vast array of writings describing Asian life and society, the images of Asia that emerge from those writings, and, in turn, the reflections of those images in European literature and art. This monumental achievement reveals profound and pervasive influences of Asian societies on developing Western culture; in doing so, it provides a perspective necessary for a balanced view of world history. Volume I: The Century of Discovery brings together "everything that a European could know of India, Southeast Asia, China, and Japan, from printed books, missionary reports, traders' accounts and maps" (The New York Review of Books). Volume II: A Century of Wonder examines the influence of that vast new body of information about Asia on the arts, institutions, literatures, and ideas of sixteenth-century Europe.
Asia In The Making Of Europe Volume Iii
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Author : Donald F. Lach
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2015-03-12
Asia In The Making Of Europe Volume Iii written by Donald F. Lach and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-03-12 with History categories.
This monumental series, acclaimed as a "masterpiece of comprehensive scholarship" in the New York Times Book Review, reveals the impact of Asia's high civilizations on the development of modern Western society. The authors examine the ways in which European encounters with Asia have altered the development of Western society, art, literature, science, and religion since the Renaissance. In Volume III: A Century of Advance, the authors have researched seventeenth-century European writings on Asia in an effort to understand how contemporaries saw Asian societies and peoples.
Asia In The Making Of Europe
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Author : Donald Frederick Lach
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1970
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Southeast Asia In The Eyes Of Europe
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Author : Donald Frederick Lach
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1968
Southeast Asia In The Eyes Of Europe written by Donald Frederick Lach and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1968 with Asia, Southeastern categories.