Author: Alice Stopford GreenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cities and towns
Languages : en
Pages : 954
Book Description
Town Life in the Fifteenth Century
Author: Alice Stopford GreenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cities and towns
Languages : en
Pages : 954
Book Description
Town Life in the Fifteenth Century, Volume 2
Author: Alice GreenPublisher: Litres
ISBN: 5040877412
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 600
Book Description
High Life
Author: Matthew LasnerPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 030026934X
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 454
Book Description
The first comprehensive architectural and cultural history of condominium and cooperative housing in twentieth-century America. Today, one in five homeowners in American cities and suburbs lives in a multifamily home rather than a single-family house. As the American dream evolves, precipitated by rising real estate prices and a renewed interest in urban living, many predict that condos will become the predominant form of housing in the twenty-first century. In this unprecedented study, Matthew Gordon Lasner explores the history of co-owned multifamily housing in the United States, from New York City’s first co-op, in 1881, to contemporary condominium and townhouse complexes coast to coast. Lasner explains the complicated social, economic, and political factors that have increased demand for this way of living, situating the trend within the larger housing market and broad shifts in residential architecture and family life. He contrasts the prevalence and popularity of condos, townhouses, and other privately governed communities with their ambiguous economic, legal, and social standing, as well as their striking absence from urban and architectural history.
Canary Bird; a Story of Town Life in the Seventeenth Century ...
Author: Watts PhillipsTown Life in the Fifteenth Century
Author: Mrs. J.R GreenPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 375234783X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 205
Book Description
Reproduction of the original: Town Life in the Fifteenth Century by Mrs. J.R Green
An Archaeology of Structural Violence
Author: Michael RollerPublisher:
ISBN: 9780813053875
Category : Anthracite coal industry
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Using evidence of historical changes in landscape, community life, and material culture from a coal mining company town in the Anthracite Coal Region of Northeast Pennsylvania, Michael Roller introduces an archaeological approach to the structural violence on workers, citizens, and consumers that developed across the twentieth century. The study begins with an analysis of a moment of explicit violence at the end of the nineteenth century, an event known as the Lattimer Massacre, in which as many as nineteen immigrant miners were shot by a posse of local businessmen. From this touchstone, material history and theoretical contexts across the twentieth century are documented in a manner both locally specific and broadly generalizable.
Cities in the Wilderness - The First Century of Urban Life in America 1625-1742
Author: Carl BridenbaughPublisher: Read Books Ltd
ISBN: 1447485874
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 674
Book Description
Today more than half of all Americans make their homes in cities, and the ease of modern transportation causes the lives of many more to be affected by town conditions. Our national history has been that of transition from a predominantly rural and agricultural way of living to one in which the city plays a major role. Both materially and psychologically urban factors govern much of American life. Their origins are therefore of more than passing interest Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
City of the Century
Author: James B. LanePublisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 9780253111876
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 390
Book Description
The United States Steel Corporation founded Gary in 1906 as an experiment in industrial urban planning, and the inscription on the city's official seal accordingly proclaims it the "City of the Century." Gary proved to be no more immune to the woes of industrialization than any other American city, however. To some, in fact, it has come to epitomize all that is wrong with contemporary urban life. But as this book clearly shows, the people of Gary have refused to surrender their sense of hope, their dignity, and their pride to the prophesiers of doom. At once scholarly and colorful, "City of the Century" is an outgrowth of urban historian James B. Lane's popular weekly columns for the Gary Post-Tribune. Lane uses the oral testimony of the people of Gary to tell a fascinating story. There are episodes of personal tragedy and heroism here, of frustrated dreams and tarnished reputations, and of challenges met and obstacles overcome.
Life in a Colonial Town
Author: Sally Senzell IsaacsPublisher: Heinemann-Raintree Library
ISBN: 9781575723129
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Reveals the lives of the people who set up the first colonies in the United States, discussing their homes and shelter, food, clothes, schools, communications, and everyday activities.
Tonga Religious Life in the Twentieth Century
Author: Elizabeth ColsonPublisher: African Books Collective
ISBN: 9982241370
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 317
Book Description
The religious life of the Tonga-speaking peoples of southern Zambia is examined over the last century, in the sense of how they have thought about the nature of their world, the meaning of their own lives, and the sources of good and evil in which their cosmology and society have been transformed. The twelve chapters cover Time, Space and Language; Basic Themes, Tonga Religious Vocabulary and its Referents; the Vocabulary of Shrines and Substance; Homestead and Bush; Ritual Communities and Actors; Rituals of the Life Course; Death and its Rituals; Evil and Witchcraft; and Christianity and Tonga Experience. The author has drawn on dairies by research assistants, and field notes and research of fellow anthropologists, but above all from her own interaction with Tonga people since 1946. The older people gave first hand memories of Ndebele and Lozi raids, David Linvingstone encamped near their villages in 1856 and 1862, the arrival of colonial administrators, traders, missionaries and European and Indian settlers, and in some cases, the end of colonial rule. Their experience and that of their children, grandchildren, and great grandchildren provides the basis for understanding Tonga religious experience. Elizabeth Colson is an American anthropologist who is widely published on the Tonga. Her research interests have particularly concentrated on the Gwembe Valley.