Critical Essays

Edited by C.G. Pickvance

This book applies the historical materialist, or Marxist view of urban sociology and collates some fundamental sources of this perspective available.

This book was first published...

2006 | Hardback: 978-0-415-41767-9 (Routledge)

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By Jan de Vries

In European Urbanization Jan de Vries provides a comprehensive data base for understanding the nature of the changes that took place in European cities from...

2006 | Hardback: 978-0-415-41768-6 (Routledge)

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By James Bird

Professor Bird presents a synthesis of the many approaches to the study of a central featuer of modern life - the city, including its distant...

2006 | Hardback: 978-0-415-41769-3 (Routledge)

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A critique and synthesis

By Ian Cullen

Much of the theoretical literature in planning and human geography at present is materialist in perspective. This offers a powerful critique but locates the dynamics...

2006 | Hardback: 978-0-415-41770-9 (Routledge)

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By R.N. Morris

This book offers a coherant theoretical introduction to urban sociology. Based on the urban theory of Louis Wirth, it systematically examines Wirth's principal ideas in...

2006 | Hardback: 978-0-415-41823-2 (Routledge)

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Furnishing the 18th Century

What Furniture Can Tell Us About the European and American Past

Edited by Dena Goodman, Kathryn Norberg

Furnishing the Eighteenth Century provides an illuminating, interdisciplinary look into European and American furniture during the century that connoisseurs and collectors consider its golden age....

2006 | Hardback: 978-0-415-94953-8 (Routledge)

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By J H Adam Watson

This collection of essays records the development of Adam Watson's thinking about international theory from the 1950s to the present, exploring his contribution to, and...

2006 | Paperback: 978-0-415-43232-0 (Routledge)

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By Kitty Newman

This new study casts fresh light on the roles of Harold Macmillan and Nikita Khrushchev and their efforts to achieve a compromise settlement on the...

2006 | Hardback: 978-0-415-35463-9 (Routledge)

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Government, Armed Forces and Defence Policy 1963–67

By Ami Gluska

This new book looks at the relationship between the Israeli armed forces, the government, and the origins of the 1967 War.

Ami Gluska discusses the effect of...

2006 | Hardback: 978-0-415-39245-7 (Routledge)

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Afrikaner Unity, the National Party and the Radical Right in Stellenbosch, 1934–1948

By Joanne L. Duffy

The Politics of Ethnic Nationalism is the first significant local study of National Party and Afrikaner politics.

By focusing on Stellenbosch as a university and...

2006 | Hardback: 978-0-415-97986-3 (Routledge)

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