Carl H. Nightingale (Buffalo State University of New York)

Gebundenes Buch

Earthopolis

Beschreibung

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.

Autor

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 826
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Juni 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 52mm
• Gewicht: 1288g
• ISBN-13: 9781108424523
• ISBN-10: 110842452X
• Artikelnr.: 63117152