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Author | : Bettany Hughes |
Publisher | : Da Capo Press |
Total Pages | : 709 |
Release | : 2017-09-19 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0306825856 |
Istanbul has long been a place where stories and histories collide, where perception is as potent as fact. From the Koran to Shakespeare, this city with three names--Byzantium, Constantinople, Istanbul -- resonates as an idea and a place, real and imagined. Standing as the gateway between East and West, North and South, it has been the capital city of the Roman, Byzantine, and Ottoman Empires. For much of its history it was the very center of the world, known simply as "The City," but, as Bettany Hughes reveals, Istanbul is not just a city, but a global story. In this epic new biography, Hughes takes us on a dazzling historical journey from the Neolithic to the present, through the many incarnations of one of the world's greatest cities--exploring the ways that Istanbul's influence has spun out to shape the wider world. Hughes investigates what it takes to make a city and tells the story not just of emperors, viziers, caliphs, and sultans, but of the poor and the voiceless, of the women and men whose aspirations and dreams have continuously reinvented Istanbul. Written with energy and animation, award-winning historian Bettany Hughes deftly guides readers through Istanbul's rich layers of history. Based on meticulous research and new archaeological evidence, this captivating portrait of the momentous life of Istanbul is visceral, immediate, and authoritative -- narrative history at its finest.
Author | : Andrew Demshuk |
Publisher | : University of Pittsburgh Press |
Total Pages | : 601 |
Release | : 2021-09-21 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0822988577 |
Three Cities after Hitler compares how three prewar German cities shared decades of postwar development under three competing post-Nazi regimes: Frankfurt in capitalist West Germany, Leipzig in communist East Germany, and Wrocław (formerly Breslau) in communist Poland. Each city was rebuilt according to two intertwined modern trends. First, certain local edifices were chosen to be resurrected as “sacred sites” to redeem the national story after Nazism. Second, these tokens of a reimagined past were staged against the hegemony of modernist architecture and planning, which wiped out much of whatever was left of the urban landscape that had survived the war. All three cities thus emerged with simplified architectural narratives, whose historically layered complexities only survived in fragments where this twofold “redemptive reconstruction” after Nazism had proven less vigorous, sometimes because local citizens took action to save and appropriate them. Transcending both the Iron Curtain and freshly homogenized nation-states, three cities under three rival regimes shared a surprisingly common history before, during, and after Hitler—in terms of both top-down planning policies and residents’ spontaneous efforts to make home out of their city as its shape shifted around them.
Author | : Barbara Czarniawska-Joerges |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 180 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780199252718 |
Cities are complex, sprawling, diverse places. They are organized, but disorganized; managed, but unmanaged; orderly, but disorderly. Modern metropolitan cities reproduce themselves and we are familiar with the common icons that are replicated in every part of the globe, but how should we understand cities? For the past five years, Professor Czarniawska has been leading a research project on globalization and the management of cities. Rather than seeing the city as a conurbation, or a location of economic activity, or in terms of governance and administration, Czarniawska explores the city as an action net. An action net of this sort includes various organizations-municipal, state, private, and voluntary-and non-organized individuals. Such an approach was designed to avoid the fallacy of viewing the big city as one big organization. The city is thus conceived as a particularly complex and disorderly action net; a seamless web of interorganizational networks, where the city administration proper constitutes just one point of entry and by no means provides a map of the entire terrain. The research focuses on three European capitals: Warsaw, Stockholm, and Rome. At the outset, leading politicians and officials in each city listed the major problems and projects that the city was engaged in, for example environmental reforms, improvement of public utilities, privatization, financial targets, etc. The author selected a number of these for more detailed study, reporting upon interesting similarities and differences between the approaches taken. The book aims to explore organizing processes in their local context while following the connections between such contexts.
Author | : Эмиль Золя |
Publisher | : Litres |
Total Pages | : 2387 |
Release | : 2021-12-02 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 5040886624 |
Author | : Emile Zola |
Publisher | : BoD – Books on Demand |
Total Pages | : 474 |
Release | : 2017-12-04 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 3732617939 |
Reproduction of the original.
Author | : Эмиль Золя |
Publisher | : Litres |
Total Pages | : 171 |
Release | : 2021-12-02 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 5040867816 |
Author | : Эмиль Золя |
Publisher | : Litres |
Total Pages | : 156 |
Release | : 2021-12-02 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 5040877102 |
Author | : Эмиль Золя |
Publisher | : Litres |
Total Pages | : 167 |
Release | : 2021-12-02 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 5040868820 |
Author | : Эмиль Золя |
Publisher | : Litres |
Total Pages | : 178 |
Release | : 2021-12-02 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 5040867964 |
Author | : Эмиль Золя |
Publisher | : Litres |
Total Pages | : 161 |
Release | : 2021-12-02 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 5040877285 |