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Author | : Susan E. Maycock |
Publisher | : National Geographic Books |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2016-11-04 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 0262034808 |
An extensively illustrated, comprehensive exploration of the architecture and development of Old Cambridge from colonial settlement to bustling intersection of town and gown. Old Cambridge is the traditional name of the once-isolated community that grew up around the early settlement of Newtowne, which served briefly as the capital of the Massachusetts Bay Colony and then became the site of Harvard College. This abundantly illustrated volume from the Cambridge Historical Commission traces the development of the neighborhood as it became a suburban community and bustling intersection of town and gown. Based on the city's comprehensive architectural inventory and drawing extensively on primary sources, Building Old Cambridge considers how the social, economic, and political history of Old Cambridge influenced its architecture and urban development. Old Cambridge was famously home to such figures as the proscribed Tories William Brattle and John Vassall; authors Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and William Dean Howells; publishers Charles C. Little, James Brown, and Henry O. Houghton; developer Gardiner Greene Hubbard, a founder of Bell Telephone; and Charles Eliot, the landscape architect. Throughout its history, Old Cambridge property owners have engaged some of the country's most talented architects, including Peter Harrison, H. H. Richardson, Eleanor Raymond, Carl Koch, and Benjamin Thompson. The authors explore Old Cambridge's architecture and development in the context of its social and economic history; the development of Harvard Square as a commercial center and regional mass transit hub; the creation of parks and open spaces designed by Charles Eliot and the Olmsted Brothers; and the formation of a thriving nineteenth-century community of booksellers, authors, printers, and publishers that made Cambridge a national center of the book industry. Finally, they examine Harvard's relationship with Cambridge and the community's often impassioned response to the expansive policies of successive Harvard administrations.
Author | : Kevin R. McNamara |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 319 |
Release | : 2014-10-06 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1107028035 |
This Companion offers readers an accessible survey of the historical and symbolic relationships between literature and the city.
Author | : David Vincent Meconi |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 369 |
Release | : 2021-08-26 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1108422519 |
Masterfully explains Augustine's major work The City of God book by book through engagement with theology, history and political science.
Author | : Miles Larmer |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 671 |
Release | : 2021-08-12 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1108968007 |
Living for the City is a social history of the Central African Copperbelt, considered as a single region encompassing the neighbouring mining regions of Zambia and the Democratic Republic of Congo. The Haut Katanga and Zambian Copperbelt mine towns have been understood as the vanguard of urban 'modernity' in Africa. Observers found in these towns new African communities that were experiencing what they wrongly understood as a transition from rural 'traditional' society – stable, superstitious and agricultural – to an urban existence characterised by industrial work discipline, the money economy and conspicuous consumption, Christianity, and nuclear families headed by male breadwinners supported by domesticated housewives. Miles Larmer challenges this representation of Copperbelt society, presenting an original analysis which integrates the region's social history with the production of knowledge about it, shaped by both changing political and intellectual contexts and by Copperbelt communities themselves. This title is available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
Author | : Anne Gerritsen |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 349 |
Release | : 2020-05-07 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 1108499953 |
A compelling examination of the ultimate global commodity, blue and white porcelain, from kiln to consumers across the globe.
Author | : James Wetzel |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 281 |
Release | : 2012-10-04 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0521199948 |
This volume addresses the complex and conflicted vision in Augustine's City of God, as a heavenly city on earthly pilgrimage.
Author | : U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services |
Publisher | : Homeland Security |
Total Pages | : 1 |
Release | : 2011-05-31 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780160842658 |
Author | : Ho-fung Hung |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 321 |
Release | : 2022-05-19 |
Genre | : BUSINESS & ECONOMICS |
ISBN | : 1108840337 |
A timely study of Hong Kong's politics and society since the 1997 handover that explores the city's long history of resistance.
Author | : Supriya RoyChowdhury |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 244 |
Release | : 2021-05-31 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1009003763 |
Alongside debates over rising inequalities, the stubbornness of urban poverty, globally, has emerged as a major academic and policy concern. Urban poverty policy positions are typically framed by paradigms of basic services and welfare. In the backdrop of Bangalore's evolution into India's silicon valley, the book presents research spanning old, inner city slums, new migrant settlements in urban peripheries, slum development projects, and garment export and construction workers, highlighting that intergenerationally, the urban poor remain tied to traditional low paying occupations, or, get incorporated into new urban growth channels (export industries, low end services) under highly unfavourable terms and conditions. Using the concepts of the old and the new poor, to explore channels of inclusion and exclusion, the book underscores that the poor's vulnerabilities are defined by different regimes of informality. Debates on the urban poor's political agency are used to problematize informality's complex relationship to contemporary theories of class.
Author | : David Lummus |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 277 |
Release | : 2020-12-17 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1108839452 |
Shows how medieval Italian poets viewed their authorship of poetry as a function of their engagement in a human community.