Cities of Empire - 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 Empire write by Tristram Hunt. This book was released on 2014-11-25. Cities of Empire available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Originally published in the U.K. in 2014 under the title Ten cities that made an empire, by Allen Lane, London."
Urban Empires
Urban Empires - 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 Urban Empires write by Edward Glaeser. This book was released on 2020-09-23. Urban Empires available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. We live in the ‘urban century’. Cities all over the world – in both developing and developed countries – display complex evolutionary patterns. Urban Empires charts the backgrounds, mechanisms, drivers, and consequences of these radical changes in our contemporary systems from a global perspective and analyses the dominant position of modern cities in the ‘New Urban World’. This volume views the drastic change cities have undergone internationally through a broad perspective and considers their emerging roles in our global network society. Chapters from renowned scholars provide advanced analytical contributions, scaling applied and theoretical perspectives on the competitive profile of urban agglomerations in a globalizing world. Together, the volume traces and investigates the economic and political drivers of network cities in a global context and explores the challenges over governance that are presented by mega-cities. It also identifies and maps out the new geography of the emergent ‘urban century’. With contributions from well-known and influential scholars from around the world, Urban Empires serves as a touchstone for students and researchers keen to explore the scientific and policy needs of cities as they become our age’s global power centers.
Islamic Empires
Islamic Empires - 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 Islamic Empires write by Justin Marozzi. This book was released on 2019-08-29. Islamic Empires available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 'Outstanding, illuminating, compelling ... a riveting read' Peter Frankopan, Sunday Times Islamic civilization was once the envy of the world. From a succession of glittering, cosmopolitan capitals, Islamic empires lorded it over the Middle East, North Africa, Central Asia and swathes of the Indian subcontinent. For centuries the caliphate was both ascendant on the battlefield and triumphant in the battle of ideas, its cities unrivalled powerhouses of artistic grandeur, commercial power, spiritual sanctity and forward-looking thinking. Islamic Empires is a history of this rich and diverse civilization told through its greatest cities over fifteen centuries, from the beginnings of Islam in Mecca in the seventh century to the astonishing rise of Doha in the twenty-first. It dwells on the most remarkable dynasties ever to lead the Muslim world - the Abbasids of Baghdad, the Umayyads of Damascus and Cordoba, the Merinids of Fez, the Ottomans of Istanbul, the Mughals of India and the Safavids of Isfahan - and some of the most charismatic leaders in Muslim history, from Saladin in Cairo and mighty Tamerlane of Samarkand to the poet-prince Babur in his mountain kingdom of Kabul and the irrepressible Maktoum dynasty of Dubai. It focuses on these fifteen cities at some of the defining moments in Islamic history: from the Prophet Mohammed receiving his divine revelations in Mecca and the First Crusade of 1099 to the conquest of Constantinople in 1453 and the phenomenal creation of the merchant republic of Beirut in the nineteenth century.
Empire, Architecture, and the City
Empire, Architecture, and 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 Empire, Architecture, and the City write by Zeynep Çelik. This book was released on 2008. Empire, Architecture, and the City available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Examines the cities of Algeria and Tunisia under French colonial rule and those of the Ottoman Arab provinces, providing a nuanced look at cross-cultural exchanges.
Capital Cities in the Aftermath of Empires
Capital Cities in the Aftermath of Empires - 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 Capital Cities in the Aftermath of Empires write by Emily Gunzburger Makas. This book was released on 2009-12-04. Capital Cities in the Aftermath of Empires available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Exploring the urban and planning history of cities across Central and South-eastern Europe against a background of rising nationalism, this book contains fourteen studies of individual cities. Introductory chapters in the book outline the political history of the area and how the developments in the different countries were interconnected.
