The Freedom of 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 The Freedom of the City write by Brian Friel. This book was released on 1974. The Freedom of the City available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Set in Londonderry in 1970, this gripping drama by the acclaimed author of Faith Healer and Translations explores the ongoing Irish "troubles" that plague the country to this day.
The Freedom of the Streets
The Freedom of the Streets - 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 The Freedom of the Streets write by Sharon E. Wood. This book was released on 2006-03-08. The Freedom of the Streets available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Gilded Age cities offered extraordinary opportunities to women--but at a price. As clerks, factory hands, and professionals flocked downtown to earn a living, they alarmed social critics and city fathers, who warned that self-supporting women were just steps away from becoming prostitutes. With in-depth research possible only in a mid-sized city, Sharon E. Wood focuses on Davenport, Iowa, to explore the lives of working women and the prostitutes who shared their neighborhoods. The single, self-supporting women who migrated to Davenport in the years following the Civil War saw paid labor as the foundation of citizenship. They took up the tools of public and political life to assert the respectability of paid employment and to confront the demon of prostitution. Wood offers cradle-to-grave portraits of individual girls and women--both prostitutes and "respectable" white workers--seeking to reshape their city and expand women's opportunities. As Wood demonstrates, however, their efforts to rewrite the sexual politics of the streets met powerful resistance at every turn from men defending their political rights and sexual power.
Searching for Freedom After the Civil War
Searching for Freedom After the Civil War - 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 Searching for Freedom After the Civil War write by G. Ward Hubbs. This book was released on 2015-05-15. Searching for Freedom After the Civil War available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Examines the life stories and perspectives about freedom in relation to the figures depicted in an infamous Reconstruction-era political cartoon
The City Between Freedom and Security
The City Between Freedom and Security - 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 The City Between Freedom and Security write by Deane Simpson. This book was released on 2016-06-30. The City Between Freedom and Security available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This publication explores the contested territory between the state and corporate drive to 'securitise' urban space – and the principle of the city as a site for enacting open civil society, participatory democracy, and the freedom of speech and assembly. Starting from the disputed redevelopment of the Oslo Government Quarter since its attack in 2011, the book functions as a broader discursive platform mediating opposing positions at the intersection of architecture/urbanism and security/democracy. The book interposes essays, interviews, site drawings, a lexicon of terms, and photo-essays documenting fieldwork in the UK, USA, Israel, Palestine and Spain. Contributors include: S. Graham, M. Sorkin, D.Harvey, G. Agamben, Y. Yasky, L. Lambert, CPNI, R. V. Clarke, J. Coaffee, and O. Newman.
Amsterdam
Amsterdam - 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 Amsterdam write by Russell Shorto. This book was released on 2013-10-22. Amsterdam available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An endlessly entertaining portrait of the city of Amsterdam and the ideas that make it unique, by the author of the acclaimed Island at the Center of the World Tourists know Amsterdam as a picturesque city of low-slung brick houses lining tidy canals; student travelers know it for its legal brothels and hash bars; art lovers know it for Rembrandt's glorious portraits. But the deeper history of Amsterdam, what makes it one of the most fascinating places on earth, is bound up in its unique geography-the constant battle of its citizens to keep the sea at bay and the democratic philosophy that this enduring struggle fostered. Amsterdam is the font of liberalism, in both its senses. Tolerance for free thinking and free love make it a place where, in the words of one of its mayors, "craziness is a value." But the city also fostered the deeper meaning of liberalism, one that profoundly influenced America: political and economic freedom. Amsterdam was home not only to religious dissidents and radical thinkers but to the world's first great global corporation. In this effortlessly erudite account, Russell Shorto traces the idiosyncratic evolution of Amsterdam, showing how such disparate elements as herring anatomy, naked Anabaptists parading through the streets, and an intimate gathering in a sixteenth-century wine-tasting room had a profound effect on Dutch-and world-history. Weaving in his own experiences of his adopted home, Shorto provides an ever-surprising, intellectually engaging story of Amsterdam.
