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Author : Penelope B. Drooker
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (6 download)
Download or read book Soldiers, Cities, and Landscapes written by Penelope B. Drooker and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David Andrew Biggs
Publisher : University of Washington Press
ISBN 13 : 0295743875
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (957 download)
Download or read book Footprints of War written by David Andrew Biggs and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2018-10-08 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When American forces arrived in Vietnam, they found themselves embedded in historic village and frontier spaces already shaped by many past conflicts. American bases and bombing targets followed spatial and political logics influenced by the footprints of past wars in central Vietnam. The militarized landscapes here, like many in the world�s historic conflict zones, continue to shape post-war land-use politics. Footprints of War traces the long history of conflict-produced spaces in Vietnam, beginning with early modern wars and the French colonial invasion in 1885 and continuing through the collapse of the Saigon government in 1975. The result is a richly textured history of militarized landscapes that reveals the spatial logic of key battles such as the Tet Offensive. Drawing on extensive archival work and years of interviews and fieldwork in the hills and villages around the city of Hue to illuminate war�s footprints, David Biggs also integrates historical Geographic Information Systems (GIS) data, using aerial, high-altitude, and satellite imagery to render otherwise placeless sites into living, multidimensional spaces. This personal and multilayered approach yields an innovative history of the lasting traces of war in Vietnam and a model for understanding other militarized landscapes.
Author : Ross Wilson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136500065
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (365 download)
Download or read book Landscapes of the Western Front written by Ross Wilson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-06-17 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the British soldiers on the Western Front and how they responded to the war landscape they encountered behind the lines and at the front. Using a multidisciplinary perspective, this study investigates the relationship between soldiers and the spaces and materials of the warzone, analyzing how soldiers constructed a ‘sense of place’ in the hostile, unpredictable environment. Drawing upon recent developments within First World War Studies and the anthropological examination of the fields of conflict, an ethnohistorical perspective of the soldiers is built which details the various ways soldiers responded to the physical and material world of the Western Front. This study is also grounded in the wider debates on how the First World War is remembered within Britain and offers an alternative perspective on the individuals who fought in the world’s first global conflagration nearly a century ago.
Author : Marta Gutman
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226311287
Total Pages : 479 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (263 download)
Download or read book A City for Children written by Marta Gutman and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2014-09-19 with total page 479 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We like to say that our cities have been shaped by creative destruction the vast powers of capitalism to remake cities. But Marta Gutman shows that other forces played roles in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries as cities responded to industrialization and the onset of modernity. Gutman focuses on the use and adaptive reuse of everyday buildings, and most tellingly she reveals the determinative roles of women and charitable institutions. In Oakland, Gutman shows, private houses were often adapted for charity work and the betterment of children, in the process becoming critical sites for public life and for the development of sustainable social environments. Gutman makes a strong argument for the centrality of incremental construction and the power of women-run organizations to our understanding of modern cities. "
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Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Park and Cemetery and Landscape Garderning written by and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Albert M. Rosenblatt
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438446594
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)
Download or read book Opening Statements written by Albert M. Rosenblatt and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2013-07-09 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No society can function without laws, that set of established practices and expectations that guide the way people get along with one another and relate to ruling authorities. Although much has been written about the English roots of American law and jurisprudence, little attention has been paid until recently to the legacy left by the Dutch. In Opening Statements, a broad spectrum of eminent scholars examine the legal heritage that New Netherland bequeathed to New York in the seventeenth century. Even after the transfer of the colony to England placed New York under English Common Law rather than Dutch Roman Law, the Dutch system of jurisprudence continued to influence evolving American concepts of governance, liberty, women's rights, and religious freedom in ways that still resonate in today's legal culture. "Opening Statements addresses only a short chapter in the long history of America. Its judgments will not be without dispute, but then, as the eminent Dutch historian Pieter Geyl once wrote: 'History is an argument without end.' There can be no doubt, however, as to the value of those seeds of freedom that were deeply planted in New Netherland. They produced a revolutionary harvest that causes us to appreciate what the Dutch inspired. A small country, the Netherlands—yes—but always a powerful ally for America in the unending struggle for a well-ordered society where freedom and justice prevail." — from the Foreword by William J. vanden Heuvel
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Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book Park and Cemetery and Landscape Gardening written by and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Maria H. Höhn
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 9780807853757
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (537 download)
Download or read book GIs and Frèauleins[ written by Maria H. Höhn and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hohn explores the encounter between Germans and the American troops stationed in the Rhineland-Palatinate, a state in southwest Germany, during the 1950s. Hohn shows that German anxieties over widespread Americanization were also debates about proper gender norms and racial boundaries, and that while the American military brought democracy with them to Germany, they also brought Jim Crow.
Author : Sinclair McKay
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
ISBN 13 : 1250277515
Total Pages : 391 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)
Download or read book Berlin: Life and Death in the City at the Center of the World written by Sinclair McKay and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2022-08-23 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sinclair McKay's portrait of Berlin from 1919 forward explores the city's broad human history, from the end of the Great War to the Blockade, rise of the Wall, and beyond. Sinclair McKay's Berlin begins by taking readers back to 1919 when the city emerged from the shadows of the Great War to become an extraordinary by-word for modernity—in art, cinema, architecture, industry, science, and politics. He traces the city’s history through the rise of Hitler and the Battle for Berlin which ended in the final conquest of the city in 1945. It was a key moment in modern world history, but beyond the global repercussions lay thousands of individual stories of agony. From the countless women who endured nightmare ordeals at the hands of the Soviet soldiers to the teenage boys fitted with steel helmets too big for their heads and guns too big for their hands, McKay thrusts readers into the human cataclysm that tore down the modernity of the streets and reduced what was once the most sophisticated city on earth to ruins. Amid the destruction, a collective instinct was also at work—a determination to restore not just the rhythms of urban life, but also its fierce creativity. In Berlin today, there is a growing and urgent recognition that the testimonies of the ordinary citizens from 1919 forward should be given more prominence. That the housewives, office clerks, factory workers, and exuberant teenagers who witnessed these years of terrifying—and for some, initially exhilarating—transformation should be heard. Today, the exciting, youthful Berlin we see is patterned with echoes that lean back into that terrible vortex. In this new history of Berlin, Sinclair McKay erases the lines between the generations of Berliners, making their voices heard again to create a compelling, living portrait of life in this city that lay at the center of the world.
Author : Ts'ui-jung Liu
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351182900
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (511 download)
Download or read book Landscape Change and Resource Utilization in East Asia written by Ts'ui-jung Liu and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-05-15 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covering the ancient period through to the 21st century, this book examines how landscapes have changed across East Asia over time. Featuring examples of a variety of landscapes, from the riverine and agricultural to the urban and aesthetic, this books thus presents a comprehensive review of East Asian environmental history. The eleven chapters, written by an international team of leading scholars, provide analysis of a wide range of spatial, temporal, and thematic considerations. Seeking to use the concept of landscape to evaluate the opportunities and constraints faced by East Asian communities, it also explores the relationship between landscape transformation and human agency. In so doing, it aims to survey the current methodology and scholarship in the field and demonstrate a new approach which encompasses socio-economic and cultural history, as well as GIS-based geographical studies. Providing an in-depth examination of landscape change across the sub-regions of China and Japan, this book will be useful to students and scholars of Asian History and Environmental Studies.
Author : Thomas Hartwell Horne
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Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.+/5 (18 download)
Download or read book Landscape Illustrations of the Bible, from Original Sketches Taken on the Spot Engraves by W. and E. Finden written by Thomas Hartwell Horne and published by . This book was released on 1836 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robert A. Orsi
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780253113313
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (133 download)
Download or read book Gods of the City written by Robert A. Orsi and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1999-07-22 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Fascinating insights into modern urban religious practice make Orsi's collection a must-read." -- Publishers Weekly "The essays provide insight into the cultural creativity, reinterpretation of worship and religious ingenuity of city people over the last 50 years." -- Library Journal "At last, a major dissection of the great mystery in modern Americanlife -- how religion and spirituality prospered amidst industrialization,urbanization, and rampant technological change after 1880!" -- Jon Butler, Yale University "Urban religion" strikes many as an oxymoron. How can religion thrive in the alienated, secular, fast-paced, and materialistic world of the modern, Western city? The authors in this collection believe that cities not only can provide the settings for religious expression, but also are material to the experiences which give rise to those religious expressions. In this book, they explore the distinctly urban forms of religious experience and practice that have developed in relation to the spaces, social conditions, and history of American cities.
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Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Landscape Architecture written by and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Arthur Hastings Grant
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 684 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (3 download)
Download or read book The American City written by Arthur Hastings Grant and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 684 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Tom Turner
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1136742204
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (367 download)
Download or read book City as Landscape written by Tom Turner and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2014-04-04 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In twenty essays, this book covers aspects of planning, architecture, urban design, landscape architecture, park and garden design. Their approach, described as post-postmodern, is a challenge to the 'anything goes' eclecticism of the merely postmodern.
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Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Planning Problems of Town, City, and Region written by and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Michael Greenhalgh
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004271635
Total Pages : 1039 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)
Download or read book The Military and Colonial Destruction of the Roman Landscape of North Africa, 1830-1900 written by Michael Greenhalgh and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2014-05-08 with total page 1039 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The French invaded Algeria in 1830, and found a landscape rich in Roman remains, which they proceeded to re-use to support the constructions such as fortresses, barracks and hospitals needed to fight the natives (who continued to object to their presence), and to house the various colonisation projects with which they intended to solidify their hold on the country, and to make it both modern and profitable. Arabs and Berbers had occasionally made use of the ruins, but it was still a Roman and Early Christian landscape when the French arrived. In the space of two generations, this was destroyed, just as were many ancient remains in France, in part because “real” architecture was Greek, not Roman.
