Memphis and the Paradox of Place: Globalization in the American South
Celebrated as the home of the blues and the birthplace of rock and roll, Memphis, Tennessee, is where Elvis Presley, B. B. King, Johnny Cash, … Read more
Urban
Race, Ethnicity, and Place in a Changing America
Uses both historical and contemporary case studies to examine how race and ethnicity affect the places we live, work, and visit..This book examines major Hispanic, … Read more
Hillbilly Nationalists, Urban Race Rebels, and Black Power: Community Organizing in Radical Times
THE STORY OF SOME OF THE MOST IMPORTANT AND LITTLE-KNOWN ACTIVISTS OF THE 1960s, IN A DEEPLY SOURCED NARRATIVE HISTORY The historians of the late … Read more
Science And Homosexualities
Science and Homosexualities is the first anthology by historians of science to examine European and American scientific research on sexual orientation since the coining of … Read more
Hitler’s Berlin: Abused City
From his first visit to Berlin in 1916, Hitler was preoccupied and fascinated by Germany’s great capital city. In this vivid and entirely new account … Read more
Urban Hacking: Cultural Jamming Strategies in the Risky Spaces of Modernity
Urban spaces became battlefields, signifiers have been invaded, new structures have been established: Netculture replaced counterculture in most parts and also focused on the everchanging … Read more
Governing the Urban in China and India: Land Grabs, Slum Clearance, and the War on Air Pollution
None An in-depth look at the distinctly different ways that China and India govern their cities and how this impacts their residents Urbanization is rapidly … Read more
Economics of the marine: modelling natural resources
This book extends the current international interest in the conceptualization of the marine sector to explore its importance of at different geographical scales: from the … Read more
Alternative Criminologies
Although they were originally considered an American phenomenon, gangs today have grown and transformed into global enterprises. Despite these changes, criminologists have not yet reassessed … Read more
Popular Housing and Urban Land Tenure in the Middle East: Case Studies from Egypt, Syria, Jordan, Lebanon, and Turkey
Irregular or illegal housing constitutes the ordinary condition of popular urban housing in the Middle East. Considering the conditions of daily practices related to land … Read more
Reconstruction in a Globalizing World
As one of the most complexly divisive periods in American history, Reconstruction has been the subject of a rich scholarship. Historians have studied the period’s … Read more