Author: Hong KongPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 674
Book Description
The Ordinances of the Legislative Council of the Colony of Hongkong Commencing with the Year 1844 ...: 1865-1873
Author: Hong KongThe Ordinances of the Legislative Council of the Colony of Hongkong Commencing with the Year 1844 ...: 1874-1884
Author: Hong KongThe Ordinances of the Legislative Council of the Colony of Hongkong Commencing with the Year 1844 ...: 1885-1887
Author: Hong KongThe Ordinances of the Legislative Council of the Colony of Hongkong Commencing with the Year 1844 ...: 1844-1864
Author: Hong KongThe Ordinances of the Legislative Council of the Colony of Hongkong: 1844-1877
Author: Hong KongMaking Hong Kong
Author: Pui-yin HoPublisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN: 1788117956
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 398
Book Description
This insightful book provides a comprehensive survey of urban development in Hong Kong since 1841. Pui-yin Ho explores the ways in which the social, economic and political environments of different eras have influenced the city's development. From colonial governance, wartime experiences, high density development and adjustments before and after 1997 through contemporary challenges, this book explores forward-looking ideas that urban planning can offer to lead the city in the future. Evaluating the relationship between town planning and social change, this book looks at how a local Hong Kong identity emerged in the face of conflict and compromise between Chinese and European cultures. In doing so, it brings a fresh perspective to urban research, providing historical context and direction for the future development of the city. Hong Kong's urban development experience offers not only a model for other Chinese cities but also a better understanding of Asian cities more broadly. Urban studies scholars will find this an exemplary case study of a developing urban landscape. Town planners and architects will also benefit from reading this comprehensive book as it shows how Hong Kong can be taken to the next stage of urban development and modernisation.
Prominent Families of New York
Author: Lyman Horace WeeksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : New York (N.Y.)
Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description
The New Zealand Official Year-book
Author: New Zealand. Department of StatisticsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : New Zealand
Languages : en
Pages : 820
Book Description
France and Germany in the South China Sea, c. 1840-1930
Author: Bert BeckerPublisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3030526046
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 484
Book Description
This book explores imperial power and the transnational encounters of shipowners and merchants in the South China Sea from 1840 to 1930. With British Hong Kong and French Indochina on its northern and western shores, the ‘Asian Mediterranean’ was for almost a century a crucible of power and an axis of economic struggle for coastal shipping companies from various nations. Merchant steamers shipped cargoes and passengers between ports of the region. Hong Kong, the global port city, and the colonial ports of Saigon and Haiphong developed into major hubs for the flow of goods and people, while Guangzhouwan survived as an almost forgotten outpost of Indochina. While previous research in this field has largely remained within the confines of colonial history, this book uses the examples of French and German companies operating in the South China Sea to demonstrate the extent to which transnational actors and business networks interacted with imperial power and the process of globalisation.
Slaving Zones
Author: Jeff Fynn-PaulPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004356487
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
Listen to podcast on “Slaving Zones, Contemporary Slavery and Citizenship: Reflections from the Brazilian Case”. In Slaving Zones: Cultural Identities, Ideologies, and Institutions in the Evolution of Global Slavery, fourteen authors—including both world-leading and emerging historians of slavery—engage with the ‘Slaving Zones’ theory. This theory has recently taken the field of Mediterranean slavery studies by storm, and the challenge posed by the editors was to see if the ‘Slaving Zones’ theory could be applied in the wider context of long-term global history. The results of this experiment are promising. In the Introduction, Jeff Fynn-Paul points out over a dozen ways in which the contributors have added to the concept of ‘Slaving Zones’, helping to make it one of the more dynamic theories of global slavery since the advent of Orlando Patterson’s Slavery and Social Death.