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Author | : Alastair Bonnett |
Publisher | : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Total Pages | : 293 |
Release | : 2014 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 054410157X |
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Alastair Bonnett explores extraordinary, off-grid, offbeat places including micro-nations, moving villages, secret cities, and no man's lands. Consider Sealand, an abandoned gun platform off the English coast that a British citizen claimed as his own sovereign nation, issuing passports and making his wife a princess. Or Baarle, a patchwork city of Dutch and Flemish enclaves where crossing the street can involve traversing national borders. Or Sandy Island, which appeared on maps well into 2012 despite the fact it never existed.
Author | : Chris Brook |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 356 |
Release | : 2006-02 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 113463627X |
Download Unruly Cities? Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The text argues that cities are open to many forms of order and disorder both from within the city and outside. They represent cities potentials as well as their problems. It challenges the assumption that cities are threatened by disorder from below and that they might be ruled by 'order' imposed from above.
Author | : Alastair Bonnett |
Publisher | : Aurum |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 2017-08-31 |
Genre | : Travel |
ISBN | : 1781317550 |
Download Beyond the Map (from the author of Off the Map) Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Geography is getting stranger. Out there, fleets of new islands are under construction and micro-nations are struggling into the light. As new borders and boundaries ebb and flow with increasing speed, it feels as if our old maps are being discarded, redrawn or torn up. Alastair Bonnett uncovers the stories of thirty-nine extraordinary places, each of which challenges us to re-imagine the world around us. From emerging islands, disruptive enclaves and bold utopian visions to uncanny ruins, ghostly tunnels and hidden landscapes – these are destinations that lie beyond ordinary coordinates. A follow on from the critically acclaimed Off the Map, this is a timely and fascinating discussion of place, ownership and ideas of state.
Author | : Michael Rapport |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 364 |
Release | : 2017 |
Genre | : HISTORY |
ISBN | : 9781541698611 |
Download The Unruly City Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
In The Unruly City, historian Mike Rapport offers a vivid history of three intertwined cities toward the end of the eighteenth century-Paris, London, and New York-all in the midst of political chaos and revolution. From the British occupation of New York during the Revolutionary War, to agitation for democracy in London and popular uprisings, and ultimately regicide in Paris, Rapport explores the relationship between city and revolution, asking why some cities engender upheaval and some suppress it. Why did Paris experience a devastating revolution while London avoided one' And how did American independence ignite activism in cities across the Atlantic' Rapport takes readers from the politically charged taverns and coffeehouses on Fleet Street, through a sea battle between the British and French in the New York Harbor, to the scaffold during the Terror in Paris. The Unruly City shows how the cities themselves became protagonists in the great drama of revolution.
Author | : Justin Martin |
Publisher | : Da Capo Press |
Total Pages | : 494 |
Release | : 2011-05-31 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 0306818817 |
Download Genius of Place Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This definitive, first full-scale biography of Olmsted--famed designer of New York's Central Park--reveals him also as a brilliant political and social reformer.
Author | : Anna Clark |
Publisher | : Arcadia Publishing |
Total Pages | : 279 |
Release | : 2016-07-13 |
Genre | : Travel |
ISBN | : 0985944153 |
Download A Detroit Anthology Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A unique perspective of the Motor City, this anthology combines stories told by both longtime residents and newcomers from activists to teachers to artists to students. While Detroit has always been rich in stories, too often those stories are told back to the city by outsiders looking in, believing they can explain Detroit back to itself. As editor, Anna Clark writes in the introduction, "These are the stories we tell each other over late nights at the pub and long afternoons on the porch. We share them in coffee shops, at church social hours, in living rooms, and while waiting for the bus. These are stories full of nodding asides and knowing laughs. These are stories addressed to the rhetorical "you"―with the ratcheted up language that comes with it―and these are stories that took real legwork to investigate . . . You will not find 'positive' stories about Detroit in this collection, or 'negative' ones. But you will find true stories." Featuring essays, photographs, art, and poetry by Grace Lee Boggs, John Carlisle, Desiree Cooper, Dream Hampton, Steve Hughes, Jamaal May, Tracie McMillan, Marsha Music, Shaka Senghor, Thomas J. Sugrue, and many others.
Author | : Joshua Keating |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 295 |
Release | : 2018-01-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0300221622 |
Download Invisible Countries Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A thoughtful analysis of how our world's borders came to be and why we may be emerging from a lengthy period of "cartographical stasis" What is a country? While certain basic criteria--borders, a government, and recognition from other countries--seem obvious, journalist Joshua Keating's book explores exceptions to these rules, including self-proclaimed countries such as Abkhazia, Kurdistan, and Somaliland, a Mohawk reservation straddling the U.S.-Canada border, and an island nation whose very existence is threatened by climate change. Through stories about these would-be countries' efforts at self-determination, as well as their respective challenges, Keating shows that there is no universal legal authority determining what a country is. He argues that although our current world map appears fairly static, economic, cultural, and environmental forces in the places he describes may spark change. Keating ably ties history to incisive and sympathetic observations drawn from his travels and personal interviews with residents, political leaders, and scholars in each of these "invisible countries."
Author | : Mark Edelman Boren |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 318 |
Release | : 2013-10-18 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1135206457 |
Download Student Resistance Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Student Resistance is an international history of student activism. Chronicling 500 years of strife between activists and the academy, Mark Edelman Boren unearths the defiant roots of the ivory tower.
Author | : Robert J. Antony |
Publisher | : Hong Kong University Press |
Total Pages | : 321 |
Release | : 2016-08-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9888208950 |
Download Unruly People Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Andrew Herod |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 271 |
Release | : 2002-09-11 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 1134740573 |
Download An Unruly World? Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
An Unruly World explores the diverse conundrums thrown up by seemingly unruly globalization. Examining how fast transnational capitalism is re-making the rules of the game, in a wide variety of different places, domains, and sectors, the authors focus on a wide range of issues: from analysis of 'soft capitalism', and the post-Cold War organizational drives of international trade unions, to the clamour of states to reinvent welfare policy, and the efforts of citizen groups to challenge trade and financial regimes. An Unruly World argues that we are not living in a world bereft of rules and rulers; the rules governing the global economy today are more strictly enforced by international organizations and rhetoric than ever before.