This is a biography of Earthopolis, the only Urban Planet we know of. Carl Nightingale takes readers on a six-continent, six-millennia tour of the world's cities, revealing how they gave humans immense power over Earth, for good and for ill.
This is a biography of Earthopolis, the only Urban Planet we know of. Carl Nightingale takes readers on a six-continent, six-millennia tour of the world's cities, revealing how they gave humans immense power over Earth, for good and for ill.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Carl Nightingale has taught urban history and world history for 25 years as a Professor at the University at Buffalo and the University of Massachusetts. He is Coordinator of the Global Urban History Project, a network of over 500 scholars working in this new hybrid field. His book Segregation: A Global History of Divided Cities (2012) was co-winner of the Jerry Bentley Prize from the World History Association.
Inhaltsangabe
Introduction: Our Urban Planet in Space and Time Prologue: Before and Beyond: Big Things in Tiny Places Part I. Cities of the Rivers: 1. Making Politics from Sunshine, Earth, and Water 2. Igniting Empire 3. Wealth for a Few, Poverty for Many I 4. Wealth for a Few, Poverty for Many II 5. How Knowledge Became Power 6. The Realm of Consequence Part II. Cities of the World Ocean: 7. Bastions, Battleships, and Gunpowder Cities 8. Wealth from the Winds and Waves 9. Consuming the Earth in Cities of Light ... and Delight Part III. Cities of Hydrocarbon: 10. Chimneys to Smokestacks 11. Planet of the People I: The Atlantic Cauldron 12. Planet of the People II: Feminists, Abolitionists, and los Liberales 13. Weapons of World Conquest 14. Capitalist Explosions 15. The Pharoahs of Flow 16. Planet of the People III: An Urban Majority Takes its Space 17. Lamps Out 18. The Labyrinths of Terror 19. Gathering Velocities I: Tailpipe Tracts and Tower Blocks 20. Gathering Velocities II: Liberation and Development 21. Greatest Accelerations I: New Empires, New Multitudes 22. Greatest Accelerations II: Shacks and Citadels 23. Greatest Accelerations III: Pleasure Palaces and Sweatshops 24. Greatest Accelerations IV: Maximal Hydrocarbon, Maximal Waste 25. 2020 Hindsight ... and Foresight? Acknowledgements Notes Index.
Introduction: Our Urban Planet in Space and Time Prologue: Before and Beyond: Big Things in Tiny Places Part I. Cities of the Rivers: 1. Making Politics from Sunshine, Earth, and Water 2. Igniting Empire 3. Wealth for a Few, Poverty for Many I 4. Wealth for a Few, Poverty for Many II 5. How Knowledge Became Power 6. The Realm of Consequence Part II. Cities of the World Ocean: 7. Bastions, Battleships, and Gunpowder Cities 8. Wealth from the Winds and Waves 9. Consuming the Earth in Cities of Light ... and Delight Part III. Cities of Hydrocarbon: 10. Chimneys to Smokestacks 11. Planet of the People I: The Atlantic Cauldron 12. Planet of the People II: Feminists, Abolitionists, and los Liberales 13. Weapons of World Conquest 14. Capitalist Explosions 15. The Pharoahs of Flow 16. Planet of the People III: An Urban Majority Takes its Space 17. Lamps Out 18. The Labyrinths of Terror 19. Gathering Velocities I: Tailpipe Tracts and Tower Blocks 20. Gathering Velocities II: Liberation and Development 21. Greatest Accelerations I: New Empires, New Multitudes 22. Greatest Accelerations II: Shacks and Citadels 23. Greatest Accelerations III: Pleasure Palaces and Sweatshops 24. Greatest Accelerations IV: Maximal Hydrocarbon, Maximal Waste 25. 2020 Hindsight ... and Foresight? Acknowledgements Notes Index.
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