Capital Cities At War

Author : Jay Winter
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521668149
Total Pages : 646 pages
Book Rating : 4.4X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Capital Cities at War written by Jay Winter and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1999-07-08 with total page 646 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This ambitious volume marks a huge step in our understanding of the social history of the Great War. Jay Winter and Jean-Louis Robert have gathered a group of scholars of London, Paris and Berlin, who collectively have drawn a coherent and original study of cities at war. The contributors explore notions of well-being in wartime cities - relating to the economy and the question of whether the state of the capitals contributed to victory or defeat. Expert contributors in fields stretching from history, demography, anthropology, economics, and sociology to the history of medicine, bring an interdisciplinary approach to the book, as well as representing the best of recent research in their own fields. Capital Cities at War, one of the few truly comparative works on the Great War, will transform studies of the conflict, and is likely to become a paradigm for research on other wars.

Author : J. M. Winter
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 622 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Capital Cities at War written by J. M. Winter and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 622 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This ambitious volume marks a huge step in our understanding of the social history of the Great War. Jay Winter and Jean-Louis Robert have gathered a group of scholars of London, Paris and Berlin, who collectively have drawn a coherent and original study of cities at war. The contributors explore notions of well-being in wartime cities - relating to the economy and the question of whether the state of the capitals contributed to victory or defeat. Expert contributors in fields stretching from history, demography, anthropology, economics, and sociology to the history of medicine, bring an interdisciplinary approach to the book, as well as representing the best of recent research in their own fields. Capital Cities at War, one of the few truly comparative works on the Great War, will transform studies of the conflict, and is likely to become a paradigm for research on other wars.

Author : Jay Winter
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521870437
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Capital Cities at War: Volume 2, A Cultural History written by Jay Winter and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 2007 book is a comparative social and economic history of the capitals of Britain, France and Germany in 1914-18.

Author : J. M. Winter
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 545 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Capital Cities at War written by J. M. Winter and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 545 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jay Winter
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521668149
Total Pages : 644 pages
Book Rating : 4.4X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Capital Cities at War written by Jay Winter and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1999-07-08 with total page 644 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This ambitious volume marks a huge step in our understanding of the social history of the Great War. The authors have compiled a vast array of data and have drawn an original and coherent portrait of European cities at war. Contributors from several fields bring an interdisciplinary approach to the book, and represent the best of recent scholarship. One of the few truly comparative works on the Great War, this volume will transform social studies of the conflict and is likely to become a model for research.

Author : Jay Winter
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521571715
Total Pages : 638 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Capital Cities at War written by Jay Winter and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1997-02-28 with total page 638 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This ambitious volume marks a huge step in our understanding of the social history of the Great War. The authors have compiled a vast array of data and have drawn an original and coherent portrait of European cities at war. Contributors from several fields bring an interdisciplinary approach to the book, and represent the best of recent scholarship. One of the few truly comparative works on the Great War, this volume will transform social studies of the conflict and is likely to become a model for research.

Author : Samuel Stein
Publisher : Verso Books
ISBN 13 : 1786636387
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Capital City written by Samuel Stein and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2019-03-05 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “This superbly succinct and incisive book couldn’t be more timely or urgent.” —Michael Sorkin, author of All Over the Map Our cities are changing. Around the world, more and more money is being invested in buildings and land. Real estate is now a $217 trillion dollar industry, worth thirty-six times the value of all the gold ever mined. It forms sixty percent of global assets, and one of the most powerful people in the world—the president of the United States—made his name as a landlord and developer. Samuel Stein shows that this explosive transformation of urban life and politics has been driven not only by the tastes of wealthy newcomers, but by the state-driven process of urban planning. Planning agencies provide a unique window into the ways the state uses and is used by capital, and the means by which urban renovations are translated into rising real estate values and rising rents. Capital City explains the role of planners in the real estate state, as well as the remarkable power of planning to reclaim urban life.

Author : Roger Moorhouse
Publisher : Basic Books
ISBN 13 : 0465022758
Total Pages : 467 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Berlin at War written by Roger Moorhouse and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2010-10-05 with total page 467 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The thrilling and definitive history of World War I in the Middle East By 1914 the powers of Europe were sliding inexorably toward war, and they pulled the Middle East along with them into one of the most destructive conflicts in human history. In The Fall of the Ottomans, award-winning historian Eugene Rogan brings the First World War and its immediate aftermath in the Middle East to vivid life, uncovering the often ignored story of the region's crucial role in the conflict. Unlike the static killing fields of the Western Front, the war in the Middle East was fast-moving and unpredictable, with the Turks inflicting decisive defeats on the Entente in Gallipoli, Mesopotamia, and Gaza before the tide of battle turned in the Allies' favor. The postwar settlement led to the partition of Ottoman lands, laying the groundwork for the ongoing conflicts that continue to plague the modern Arab world. A sweeping narrative of battles and political intrigue from Gallipoli to Arabia, The Fall of the Ottomans is essential reading for anyone seeking to understand the Great War and the making of the modern Middle East.

Author : Mari Sandoz
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 9780803260313
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Capital City written by Mari Sandoz and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2007-11-01 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An evocative fictional portrait of the impact of the Depression on the Great Plains captures working-class people of the period as they struggle to overcome the hardships, challenges, and pain of everyday life in the face of poverty, political and economic upheaval, and corruption. Reprint.

Author : Victor Cunrui Xiong
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1317235568
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Capital Cities and Urban Form in Pre-modern China written by Victor Cunrui Xiong and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2016-08-19 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Luoyang, situated in present-day Henan province, was one of the great urban centres of pre-Qin and early imperial China, the favoured site for dynastic capitals for almost two millennia. This book, the first in any Western language on the subject, traces the rise and fall of the six different capital cities in the region which served eleven different dynasties from the Western Zhou dynasty, when the first capital city made its appearance in Luoyang, to the great Tang dynasty, when Luoyang experienced a golden age. It examines the political histories of these cities, explores continuity and change in urban form with a particular focus on city layouts and landmark buildings, and discusses the roles of religions, especially Buddhism, and illustrious city residents. Overall the book provides an accessible survey of a broad sweep of premodern Chinese urban history.