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"Drawing on the diary Margaret Addison kept while travelling in Europe, Jean O'Grady makes available the experiences of the woman who would become the first dean of Annesley Hall at Victoria College. Addison spent most of 1900 travelling through Europe and Britain. Her reactions…
"Drawing on the diary Margaret Addison kept while travelling in Europe, Jean O'Grady makes available the experiences of the woman who would become the first dean of Annesley Hall at Victoria College. Addison spent most of 1900 travelling through Europe and Britain. Her reactions…
Between the 1890s and 1920s, cities in the vast region stretching from the Mediterranean Sea to the Indian Ocean were experiencing political, social, economic, and cultural changes that had been set in motion at least since the early nineteenth century. As the age of pre-colonia…
"By illuminating the material and managerial considerations involved in developing the counter-terrorism approaches deployed in London, this book contributes to the current debate about terrorism and urbanism against the context of new security challenges facing western nations …
'Terrorism, Risk and the City' was published at a time (2003) when London, and many other global cities, were coming to terms with the expanded threat of international terrorism they faced. The book offered a historical as well as contemporary account of the physical, financial …
The twentieth century has seen an increase in the globe's human population from approximately 1.6 billion in 1900 to about 5 billion in 1987. Accompanying this event has been a considerable growth in the population of the world's largest cities. In The Dynamics of Cities the aut…
[Flaptekst] Les études rassemblées ici ont été présentées lors d'une rencontre organisée par l'Istituto Patristico Augustinianum et l'École Française de Rome en décembre 1995. Elles proposent quelques éclairages sur la façon dont se constitue la figure de l'évêque, entre la fin …
"From maps, migration and magic, to linguistic differences and tribal disputes, The Discovery of France tells the whole story of this remarkable - and surprising - country."--Jacket.