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Crime and punishment in Istanbul 1700 - 1800
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This vividly detailed revisionist history exposes the underworld of the largest metropolis of the early modern Mediterranean and through it the entire fabric of a complex, multicultural society. Fariba Zarinebaf maps…
The waters of Rome : Aqueducts, fountains, and the birth of the Baroque city
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In this pioneering study of the water infrastructure of Renaissance Rome, urban historian Katherine Rinne offers a new understanding of how technological and scientific developments in aqueduct and fountain…
Jerusalem : The biography
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Jerusalem is the universal city, the capital of two peoples, the shrine of three faiths; it is the prize of empires, the site of Judgement Day and the battlefield of today's clash of civilisations. From King David to…
La soif de Jérusalem. Essai d'hydrohistoire (1840-1948)
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L’histoire urbaine de Jérusalem aux XIXe et XXe siècles, ensevelie sous les mémoires concurrentes, a fini par s’effacer derrière les conflits symboliques et…
Music and urban society in colonial Latin America
Abstract from the publisher : The Spanish colonial project in Latin America from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries was distinctly urban in focus. The impact of the written word on this process was explored in Ángel Rama's seminal…
Singapore from Temasek to the 21st century : Reinventing the global city
Abstract from the publisher : Once a centre for international trade and finance, Singapore is now a "global city." Singapore from Temasek to the 21st Century: Reinventing the Global City examines its evolution from trading port to…
Assainir l'agglomération parisienne
Assainir l'agglomération parisienne - Histoire d'une politique publique interdépartementale de l'assainissement (XIXe-XXe siècles)
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Dans un contexte, le nôtre, où…
Histoire sociale du politique : les villes de l’Ouest atlantique français à l’époque moderne
Histoire sociale du politique : les villes de l’Ouest atlantique français à l’époque moderne (XVIe-XVIIIe siècle)
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En prenant les municipalités comme objet…
Women and the everyday city : Public space in San Francisco, 1890 - 1915
Abstract from the publisher : Women in the city in turn-of-the-century San Francisco In Women and the Everyday City, Jessica Ellen Sewell explores the lives of women in turn-of-the-century San Francisco. A period of transformation of both gender…
Company towns in the Americas : Landscape, power, and working-class communities
Abstract from the publisher : Company towns were the spatial manifestation of a social ideology and an economic rationale. The contributors to this volume show how national politics, social protest, and local culture transformed those founding…
To the city : Urban photographs of the New Deal
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In the 1930s and 1940s, as the United States moved from a rural to an urban nation, the pull of the city was irrepressible. It was so strong that even a photographic mission designed to record the essence of rural…
Levant : Splendour and catastrophe on the Mediterranean
Abstract from the publisher : Levant is a book of cities. It describes three former centers of great wealth, pleasure, and freedom—Smyrna, Alexandria, and Beirut—cities of the Levant region along the eastern coast of the Mediterranean.…
Urban narratives : Building Barcelona through literature
Abstract from the distributor : In a trajectory that follows not only the topographic and social changes undergone by the city, but also the succession of narrative models that reflect these changes, this book proposes a historical and critical…
Babylon of Egypt : The archaeology of Old Cairo and the origins of the city
Abstract from the publisher : An archaeological investigation into the ancient nucleus of medieval and modern Cairo This book presents a history of Old Cairo based on new archaeological evidence gathered between 2000 and 2006 during a major…
Beirut
Abstract from the publisher : Widely praised as the definitive history of Beirut, this is the story of a city that has stood at the crossroads of Mediterranean civilization for more than four thousand years. The last major work completed by Samir…
La rue Sainte-Catherine
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Célèbre pour son flot ininterrompu d'activités, la rue Sainte-Catherine est un pilier de l'histoire de la ville de Montréal. Dans cet ouvrage, découvrez comment elle s'est…
Toulouse au Moyen Age, 1000 ans d'histoire urbaine
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A Toulouse, comme ailleurs, le Moyen Age – considéré comme la période allant de la fin de l’Antiquité au XVe siècle – est une période clef pour…
Aix-en-Provence 1850-1950. Les faux semblants de l'immobilisme
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Au milieu du XIXe siècle, la ville d’Aix-en-Provence est présentée comme le modèle de la ville endormie. Petite sous-préfecture, elle reste marquée par…
Manifester à Paris, 1880-2010
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Cet ouvrage, à la croisée de l’histoire politique et de l’histoire urbaine, analyse les liens tissés durant plus d’un siècle entre Paris et les manifestations…
After the factory : Reinventing America's industrial small cities
Abstract from the publisher : The most pressing question facing the small and mid-sized cities of America's industrial heartland is how to reinvent themselves. Once-thriving communities in the Northeastern and Midwestern U. S. have decayed sharply…