Author: Ronald Gray Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 9781139435499 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 184
Book Description
This book, first published in 2000, draws on the great wealth of associations of street-names in Cambridge. It is not a dictionary, but it provides a series of entries on such topics as the Reformation, George IV and his wife, twentieth-century British scientists, businessmen, Elizabethan times, medieval Cambridge, mayors, millers, and builders. It includes hermits and coal merchants, field marshals and laundresses, martyrs and bombers, unscrupulous politicians and the founder of a Christian community, Cromwell and Newton, an Anglo-Saxon queen and the discoverer of Uranus - all people who lived in or often visited Cambridge. The ancient Stourbridge fair is included, along with castles and boat-races, sewage pumps and the original Hobson of 'Hobson's Choice'. Who was St Tibb? Where did Dick Turpin hide? Where was the medieval takeaway? Unlike earlier works, this is a history of everybody for everybody.
Author: Ronald Gray Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 9780521789561 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 180
Book Description
This book draws on the great wealth of associations of street names in Cambridge. It is not a dictionary, but it provides a series of entries on such topics as the Reformation, George IV and his wife, twentieth-century British scientists, businessmen, Elizabethan times, medieval Cambridge, mayors, millers, and builders. It includes hermits and coal merchants, field marshals and laundresses, martyrs and bombers, unscrupulous politicians and the founder of a Christian community, Cromwell and Newton, an Anglo-Saxon queen and the discoverer of Uranus--all people who lived in or often visited Cambridge.
Author: Geographers' A-Z Map Co Ltd Publisher: Geographers' A-Z Map Company Limited ISBN: 9781843488088 Category : Cambridge (England) Languages : en Pages : 0
Book Description
This new A-Z map of Cambridge is a full colour street atlas and for the first time, features a places of interest guide. Now with extended coverage, this publication has 48 pages of continuous street mapping to include: -Longstanton-Cottenham-Waterbeach-Milton-Fulbourn-Great Shelford-Highfields Caldecote-Bar HillIn addition, there is a large scale map of Cambridge city centre.Postcode districts, one-way streets and safety camera locations with their maximum speed are also featured on the mapping.The places of interest guide is both informative and helpful with information about: -The Tourist Information Centre-Sightseeing tours-Boat and punt hire-Selected places of interest-Cambridge University CollegesThe index section lists streets, selected flats, walkways and places of interest, place, area and station names, hospitals and hospices covered by this atlas.This atlas is ideal, not only for navigating around Cambridge, but for exploring this historic city.
Author: Mr Steven Decker Publisher: ISBN: 9780692978474 Category : Languages : en Pages :
Book Description
In the early 1900s, the Mafia controls much of Sicily, the government is corrupt, and taxes are exorbitant. As a result of the terrible conditions and the limits of their crops, Tomas and Katerina Tomaso are forced to send their three grown sons and their grandchildren to live in America. It is a heart-breaking split: grandparents forced to say goodbye to grandchildren knowing they will likely never see them again. Parents and sons splitting from each other. Paolo and Gianna, their two young children and the two younger brothers endure a painful farewell to the people, the farm and the life they love. They arrive in Chicago on Christmas Day at the dawning of the Roaring Twenties. The sprawling, dirty, smelly city is not like anything they could have imagined or dreamed. The family moves into a fourth floor apartment in a run-down tenement building in the Little Italy section of town. The streets are run by mobsters, politicians and crooked cops, not much different from their homeland. The family soon learns that they are now in the lower class. The two-century family history of hard work and honesty in the Old Country does not matter here. They endure prejudice in the workplace, in the lack of social services and in the absence of police protection. Jobs were hard to find, especially for Italians and even worse for Sicilians. Poverty and discrimination humble them all. Life was tough, but they learned to be tougher. Slowly, the family overcomes obstacles and adjusts to their new homeland. TThe children grow and become Americans. The family was finally settled and content when a terrible and unforgiveable act of violence - committed against them by their Italian countrymen - struck the family, hard. Paolo and Gianna's dreams and hopes for their future and for their children hang in the balance as they decide on the course of action that will define them as people and determine their futures. Plots and tensions simmer and boil over in a shocking conclusion early one morning on Cambridge Street.
Author: Adrian Room Publisher: ISBN: Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 280
Book Description
A useful aid to local historians, Room's pioneering study categorises the different types of street name for the first time, discusses them in detail, and explains the meaning of over 3500 examples.
Author: Nikolina Bobic Publisher: Taylor & Francis ISBN: 1000774112 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 619
Book Description
For architecture and urban space to have relevance in the 21st Century, we cannot merely reignite the approaches of thought and design that were operative in the last century. This is despite, or because of, the nexus between politics and space often being theorized as a representation or by-product of politics. As a symbol or an effect, the spatial dimension is depoliticized. Consequently, architecture and the urban are halted from fostering any systematic change as they are secondary to the event and therefore incapable of performing any political role. This handbook explores how architecture and urban space can unsettle the unquestioned construct of the spatial politics of governing. Considering both ongoing and unprecedented global problems – from violence and urban warfare, the refugee crisis, borderization, detention camps, terrorist attacks to capitalist urbanization, inequity, social unrest and climate change – this handbook provides a comprehensive and multidisciplinary research focused on the complex nexus of politics, architecture and urban space. Volume I starts by pointing out the need to explore the politics of spatialization to make sense of the operational nature of spatial oppression in contemporary times. The operative and active political reading of space is disseminated through five thematics: Violence and War Machines; Security and Borders; Race, Identity and Ideology; Spectacle and the Screen; and Mapping Landscapes and Big Data. This first volume of the handbook frames cutting-edge contemporary debates and presents studies of actual theories and projects that address spatial politics. This Handbook will be of interest to anyone seeking to meaningfully disrupt the reduction of space to an oppressive or neutral backdrop of political realities.
Author: Ronald Gray
Author: Ronald Gray
Author: Cambridge (Mass.). City Council
Author: Geographers' A-Z Map Co Ltd
Author: Mr Steven Decker
Author: Town of Cambridge [W.A.]
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Author: James Hayward
Author: Adrian Room
Author: Nikolina Bobic