Cities of Strangers - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Cities of Strangers write by Miri Rubin. This book was released on 2020-03-19. Cities of Strangers available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Explores how medieval towns and cities received newcomers, and the process by which these 'strangers' became 'neighbours' between 1000 and 1500.
City of Strangers
City of Strangers - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook City of Strangers write by Andrew Gardner. This book was released on 2010. City of Strangers available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In City of Strangers, Andrew M. Gardner explores the everyday experiences of workers from India who have migrated to the Bahrain and the sponsorship system, the kafala, under which they labor and upon which they depend for continued employment.
Strangers in the City
Strangers in the City - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Strangers in the City write by Li Zhang. This book was released on 2001. Strangers in the City available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. With rapid commercialization, a booming urban economy, and the relaxation of state migratory policies, over 100 million peasants, known as China's "floating population," have streamed into large cities seeking employment and a better life. This book traces the profound transformation this massive flow of rural migrants has caused as it challenges Chinese socialist modes of state control.
A World of Strangers
A World of Strangers - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A World of Strangers write by Lyn H. Lofland. This book was released on 1985. A World of Strangers available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In traditional human societies, the stranger was a threat, to be disarmed at once by an act of force or by a ritual of hospitality. Under no conditions could a stranger be ignored or taken for granted. Yet in all great cities today, human beings seem to live out their entire lives in a world of strangers. How did it become possible for millions of people to do this? How is city life possible? The unique value of A World of Strangers lies in Loflands expert use of rich historical and anthropological sources to answer these questions. She demonstrates that a potentially chaotic and meaningless world of strangers was transformed into a knowable and predictable world of strangers by the same mechanism humans always use to make their world livable: it was ordered. Lofland offers a brilliant analysis of the various devices used at different times in history to create social and psychological order in cities, concluding with an analysis of the contemporary city, in which the location of the encounter between strangers has come to replace personal appearance as a means of evaluating others. Lofland also describes how city people initially learn and then act upon the ordering principles dominant in their society. A World of Strangers is a wonderfully wise and readable account of how we have come to live as we do.
Cities of Strangers
Cities of Strangers - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Cities of Strangers write by Miri Rubin. This book was released on 2020-03-19. Cities of Strangers available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Cities of Strangers illuminates life in European towns and cities as it was for the settled, and for the 'strangers' or newcomers who joined them between 1000 and 1500. Some city-states enjoyed considerable autonomy which allowed them to legislate on how newcomers might settle and become citizens in support of a common good. Such communities invited bankers, merchants, physicians, notaries and judges to settle and help produce good urban living. Dynastic rulers also shaped immigration, often inviting groups from afar to settle and help their cities flourish. All cities accommodated a great deal of difference - of language, religion, occupation - in shared spaces, regulated by law. But when, from around 1350, plague began regularly to occur within European cities, this benign cycle began to break down. High mortality rates led eventually to demographic crises and, as a result, less tolerant and more authoritarian attitudes emerged, resulting in violent expulsions of even long-settled groups. Tracing the development of urban institutions and using a wide range of sources from across Europe, Miri Rubin recreates a complex picture of urban life for settled and migrant communities over the course of five centuries and offers an innovative vantage point on Europe's past with insights for its present.
