Urban History of India
Author: Deepali Barua
Publisher: Mittal Publications
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9788170995388
DOWNLOAD EBOOKUrbanization of Dibrugarh, a town in Assam.
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Urban History 19:2
Author: Kajal Lahiri
Publisher: CUP Archive
Published: 1992-12-10
Total Pages: 236
ISBN-13: 9780521438506
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA Contemporary Archaeology of Post-Displacement Resettlement
Author: Erin P. Riggs
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2024-05-14
Total Pages: 265
ISBN-13: 1003861806
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book explores the archaeology of the 1947 Partition, the largest mass migration in human history, and the resulting resettlement of half a million refugees in Delhi, India’s capital city. Interweaving material analysis with oral history collection and archival sources, this book considers how Delhi’s Partition refugees have interacted with the city's built landscapes through time. It demonstrates how government-built refugee colonies, influenced by both socialist and capitalist design philosophies, provided an effective and adaptable setting for resettlement. In contrast, it illustrates how Delhi’s pre-Partition landscapes—including ‘evacuee properties’ vacated by out-migrating Muslims and sections of the planned, colonial capital—have proven more problematic venues for rehousing. In these contexts, refugee families navigated life within homes shaped by past occupants and colonial-era wealth disparities. The book highlights that despite such difficulties and the unprecedented scale of Partition’s impact on Delhi, refugees have obtained an impressive degree of material success and social acceptance in the city. This example challenges assumptions about the aid-dependency of refugee communities, the potential effectiveness of public housing, and the mutability of national belonging. This interdisciplinary case study will be of interest to scholars in varied fields of study, including archaeology, architectural history, cultural anthropology, human geography, and South Asian studies.
The Modern Middle East
Author: Ilan Pappé
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2014-03-26
Total Pages: 401
ISBN-13: 1317936442
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis hugely successful, ground-breaking book is the first introductory textbook on the Modern Middle East to foreground the urban, rural, cultural and gender histories of the region over its political and economic history. Distancing himself from more traditional modernising approaches, Ilan Pappé is concerned with the ideological question of whom we investigate in the past rather than how we investigate the past. Pappé begins his narrative at the end of the First World War with the Ottoman heritage, and concludes at the present day with the political discourse of Islam. Providing full geographical coverage of the region, The Modern Middle East: opens with a carefully argued introduction which outlines the methodology used in the textbook provides a thematic and comparative approach to the region, helping students to see the peoples of the Middle East and the developments that affect their lives as part of a larger world includes insights gained from new historiographical trends and a critical approach to conventional state- and nation-centred historiographies includes case studies, debates, maps, photos, an up-to-date bibliography and a glossarial index. This third edition has been brought right up to date with recent events, and includes the developments through the Arab Spring, more economic history, much more focus on gender history and discussion of religion in the region from a broad perspective. Accessible and original, The Modern Middle East continues to energise discussion and stimulate debate on the region’s history, and provides new insights and perspectives on its story.
History of Urban Form Before the Industrial Revolution
Author: A.E.J. Morris
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-12-02
Total Pages: 457
ISBN-13: 1317885147
DOWNLOAD EBOOKProvides an international history of urban development, from its origins to the industrial revolution. This well established book maintains the high standard of information found in the previous two editions, describing the physical results of some 5000 years of urban activity. It explains and develops the concept of 'unplanned' cities that grow organically, in contrast with 'planned' cities that were shaped in response to urban form determinants. Spread throughout the texts are copious illustrations from a wealth of sources, including cartographic urban records, aerial and other photographs, original drawings and the author's numerous analytical line drawings.
Resources of the City
Author: Bill Luckin
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2017-03-02
Total Pages: 310
ISBN-13: 1351903799
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe field of urban environmental history is a relatively new one, yet it is rapidly moving to the forefront of scholarly research and is the focus of much interdisciplinary work. Given the environmental problems facing the modern world it is perhaps unsurprising that historians, geographers, political, natural and social scientists should increasingly look at the environmental problems faced by previous generations, and how they were regarded and responded to. This volume reflects this growing concern, and reflects many of the key concerns and issues that are essential to our understanding of the problems faced by cities in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Addressing a variety of environmental issues, such as clean water supply, the provision/retention of green space, and noise pollution, that faced European and North American cities the essays in this volume highlight the common responses as well as the differences that characterised the reactions to these trans-national concerns.
Urban World History
Author: Luc-Normand Tellier
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: 2019-09-14
Total Pages: 463
ISBN-13: 3030248429
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book seeks to deepen readers’ understanding of world history by investigating urbanization and the evolution of urban systems, as well as the urban world, from the perspective of historical analysis. The theoretical framework of the approach stems directly from space-economy, and, more generally, from location theory and the theory of urban systems. The author explores a certain logic to be found in world history, and argues that this logic is spatial (in terms of spatial inertia, spatial trends, attractive and repulsive forces, vector fields, etc.) rather than geographical (in terms of climate, precipitation, hydrography). Accordingly, the book puts forward a truly original vision of urban world history, one that will benefit economists, historians, regional scientists, and anyone with a healthy curiosity.
Free Town Libraries, Their Formation, Management, and History
Author: Edward Edwards
Publisher:
Published: 1869
Total Pages: 682
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHistory of the Town of Wolcott
Author: Samuel Orcutt
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Published: 2023-09-27
Total Pages: 634
ISBN-13: 3368835742
DOWNLOAD EBOOKReprint of the original, first published in 1874.
Routledge Library Editions: Urban History
Author: Various Authors
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2021-02-25
Total Pages: 2610
ISBN-13: 1351137174
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe volumes in this set, originally published between 1940 and 1994, draw together research by leading academics in the area of welfare and the welfare state, and provide a rigorous examination of related key issues. The volumes examine welfare policy, equality, poverty, class, government, social policy, unemployment, and social services, whilst also exploring the general principles and practices of welfare and the welfare state in various countries. This set will be of particular interest to students of sociology, health, and political studies respectively.
