The City in American Literature and Culture, Edited by Kevin R. McNamara
Автор: Adam, Hans-christian Название: Berlin, Portrait of a City ISBN: 3822814458 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783822814451 Издательство: Taschen Рейтинг: Цена: 53130.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть Описание: The most comprehensive photographic study of an extraordinary city, Berlin, Portrait of a City offers some 560 pages of aerial views, street scenes, portraits, and more to trace the city from the Roaring Twenties to the ruins of war to its rebirth as political and cultural capital. Quotes from famed Berlin icons and connoisseurs, from Marlene...
Автор: Heimann Jim Название: Dark City: The Real Los Angeles Noir ISBN: 3836560763 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783836560764 Издательство: Taschen Рейтинг: Цена: 44270.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть Описание: What's Wrong in Tinseltown? The dark side of Los Angeles, 1920-1960
In the years following World War I, Los Angeles was a city awakening to its darker side, transforming itself from a backwater town to a gleaming metropolis and city of the future. But along the way a tarnished patina began to coat its ever-more glamorous facade. As thousands flocked to the city with their dreams and desires, so too came get-rich-quick schemes, phony religions, organized crime, and corruption.
A visual history like no other, Dark City brings together images from archives, museums, newspaper photo morgues, private collections, and the author's extensive image library to reveal the true grit, grime, and sheer horror stories of Los Angeles from the 1920s to 1950s. In large format, we roam through the back alleys, gin joints, tattoo parlors, gambling dens, nightclubs, and the most brutal crime scenes, to uncover a city crawling with murder and mayhem.
From Sunset Boulevard to a jazz-saturated Central Avenue, tabloid headlines chronicle the most famous celebrities and infamous crimes in a hopped-up city that provided inspiration for journalists, pulp fiction scribes, and filmland script writers in their creation of the noir genre. With rare vintage magazine reprints from the crime tabloids of the time, this is a uniquely evocative visual history through which the crime, crooks, crazies, and mean streets of the City of Angels are transformed from myth to reality.
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Автор: Mansel Philip Название: Aleppo - The Rise and Fall of Syria`s Great Merchant City ISBN: 1784538477 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781784538477 Издательство: I B Tauris Рейтинг: Цена: 13190.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: A poignant testament to the city shattered by Syria`s civil war.
Автор: Hess, Jillian M. (associate Professor Of English, Название: How romantics and victorians organized information ISBN: 0192896075 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780192896070 Издательство: Oxford Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 25330.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: This volume studies an important manuscript form of nineteenth-century England: the commonplace book and its descendent, the scrapbook. It explores the tradition of managing information in nineteenth-century England and excavates notes and drafts of the most important works in Romantic and Victorian literature.
Автор: Wickham, Chris (chichele Professor Of Medieval History, University Of Oxford) Название: Medieval rome ISBN: 0198811225 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780198811220 Издательство: Oxford Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 28500.00 T Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии. Описание: A new history of medieval Rome, told not from the standpoint of the Church, but of the Romans themselves. This volume examines Rome`s cultural, political, religious, legal, and social identity to discover how the city functioned between 900 and 1150.
Автор: Francis, Matthew, Название: Unreal city : ISBN: 0367530686 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780367530686 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 148010.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Depersonalization is a distressing symptom in which sufferers feel detached from their own selves and the world. Beginning with a first-hand account of the experience, this volume argues that many well-known literary texts evoke a similar psychological state.
Many of the millions of workers streaming in from rural China to jobs at urban factories soon find themselves in new kinds of poverty and oppression. Yet, their individual experiences are far more nuanced than popular narratives might suggest. Rural Origins, City Lives probes long-held assumptions about migrant workers in China. Drawing on fieldwork in Nanjing, Roberta Zavoretti argues that many rural-born urban-dwellers are--contrary to state policy and media portrayals--heterogeneous in their employment, lifestyle, and aspirations. Working and living in the cities, rural-born workers change China's urban landscape, becoming part of an increasingly diversified and stratified society. Zavoretti finds that, over thirty years after the Open Door Reform, class formation, not residence status, is key to understanding inequality in contemporary China.
Over the past several decades, the vibrant, multiethnic borough of Queens has seen growth in the community of Nepali migrants, many of whom are navigating the challenging bureaucratic process of asylum legalization. Surviving the Sanctuary City follows them through the institutional spaces of asylum offices, law firms, and human rights agencies to document the labor of seeking asylum. As an interpreter and a volunteer at a grassroots community center, anthropologist Tina Shrestha has witnessed how migrants must perform a particular kind of suffering that is legible to immigration judges and asylum officers. She demonstrates the lived contradictions asylum seekers face while producing their "suffering testimonials" and traces their attempts to overcome these contradictions through the Nepali notions of kaagaz banaune (making paper) and dukkha (suffering).
Surviving the Sanctuary City asks what everyday survival among migrants and asylum seekers can tell us about the cultural logic of suffering within the confines of US borders. Through rich ethnographic detail and careful nuanced narratives, it puts the lives and perspectives of the Nepali migrant community at the center of the story. In so doing, Shrestha offers a fundamental rethinking of asylum seeking as a form of precarious labor and immigration enforcement in a rapidly changing US society.
Автор: Yarov Название: Leningrad 1941-42 - Morality in a City Under Siege ISBN: 1509507981 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781509507986 Издательство: Wiley Рейтинг: Цена: 19000.00 T Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Автор: Alexander Werth Название: Leningrad 1943: Inside a City Under Siege ISBN: 1350138096 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781350138094 Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic Рейтинг: Цена: 7380.00 T Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии. Описание: The Siege of Leningrad is the most powerful testimony to the immeasurable cruelty and horror of World War II. From 1941-1945, the Eastern Front was the site of some of the bloodiest atrocities of the war and the city of Leningrad, now St. Petersburg, proved to be a decisive point in the conflict. German policy was resolutely determined to redraw the map of Europe, annihilate the Soviet Union and give large areas of territory to Finland. Through Hitler's ambition to completely eradicate the city and its entire population, it was decided that the most efficient method of invasion was to encircle and bombard the city into submission. After 872 days of aggression, one and a half million people lost their lives, mostly from starvation. As the sole British correspondent to have been in Leningrad during the blockade, Alexander Werth's eyewitness account presents a harrowing perspective on the savagery and destruction wrought by the Nazis against the civilian population of the city.His writing evokes compelling images of terror - the oil bombing of children's hospitals, mass starvation and cannibalism - with rich and sophisticated commentary on the internal politics of Soviet party chiefs, soldiers and civilian resistance fighters. Both an authoritative historical document and a journalistic re-telling of the overwhelming sadness, grief and futility of 20th century warfare, this is an invaluable look at one of the greatest losses of human life in recorded history.
Автор: Peeples, Scott Название: Man of the crowd ISBN: 069124796X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780691247960 Издательство: Wiley Рейтинг: Цена: 16890.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Автор: Christopher Morash Название: Dublin: A Writer`s City ISBN: 1108831648 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781108831642 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 21120.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: The words of its writers are part of the texture of Dublin, an invisible counterpart to the bricks and pavement we see around us. Beyond the ever-present footsteps of James Joyce's characters, Leopold Bloom or Stephen Dedalus, around the city centre, an ordinary-looking residential street overlooking Dublin Bay, for instance, presents the house where Nobel Laureate Seamus Heaney lived for many years; a few blocks away is the house where another Nobel Laureate, W. B. Yeats, was born. Just down the coast is the pier linked to yet another, Samuel Beckett, from which we can see the Martello Tower that is the setting for the opening chapter of Ulysses. But these are only a few. Step-by-step, Dublin: A Writer's City unfolds a book-lover's map of this unique city, inviting us to experience what it means to live in a great city of literature. The book is heavily illustrated, and features custom maps.
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