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Jerusalemby Simon Sebag Montefiore
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2011; US$ 17.99Jerusalem is the universal city, the capital of two peoples, the shrine of three faiths; it is the prize of empires, the site of Judgement Day and the battlefield of today’s clash of civilizations. From King David to Barack Obama, from the birth of Judaism, Christianity and Islam to the Israel-Palestine conflict, this is the epic history of three thousand years of faith, slaughter, fanaticism and coexistence. How did this small, remote town become the Holy City, the “center of the world” and now the key to peace in the Middle East? In a gripping narrative, Simon Sebag Montefiore reveals this ever-changing city in its many incarnations, bringing every epoch and character blazingly to life. Jerusalem’s biography... more...
Venice, the Tourist Mazeby Robert C. Davis; Garry R. Marvin
University of California Press 2004; US$ 15.95"The tourist Venice is Venice," Mary McCarthy once observed?a sentiment very much in line with what most of the fourteen million tourists who visit the city each year experience, but at the same time a painful reality for the 65,000 Venetians who actually live there. Venice is viewed from a new perspective in this engaging book, which offers a heady, one-city tour of tourism itself. Conducting readers from the beginnings of Venetian tourism in the late Middle Ages to its emergence as a form of mass entertainment in our time, the authors explore what happens when today's "industrial tourism" collides with an ancient and ever-more-fragile culture. Giving equal consideration to those who tour Venice and those who live there, their book affords... more...
Jerusalemby Tamar Mayer; Suleiman A. Mourad
Taylor & Francis 2008; US$ 46.95With contributions from many noted scholars in a wide range of fields, this is a multidisciplinary study of one of the world's great cities that is of enormous, historical, religious and political significance. more...
Dubaiby Yasser Elsheshtawy
Taylor & Francis 2009; US$ 115.00This book explores Dubais history from its beginnings as a small fishing village to its place on the world stage today, using historical narratives, travel descriptions, novels and fictional accounts by local writers to bring colour to the history of the citys urban development. With case studies and surveys the author explores the economic and political forces driving Dubais urban growth, its changing urbanity and its place within the global city network. more...
Cairoby Maria Golia
Reaktion Books 2004; US$ 31.00Maria Golia focuses on the present moment of Cairo, one of the world's most illustrious and irreducible cities. more...
Stockholmby Tony Griffiths
Oxford University Press, USA 2009; US$ 99.00Situated on one of the world's most beautiful harbors, Stockholm has set the benchmark for civilized urban living since the time of the Vikings. Tony Griffiths reveals a city of power, intrigue, and murder; of scientists and investors; and a sensual city, home of Greta Garbo and the smorgasbord. Its medieval period saw the Vasa dynasty turn a small town into the capital of a dominant European power and a major trading port. In the Napoleonic era, Stockholm established itself as a center of both technical and social innovation. While the city has suffered more than its fair share of misfortune, Stockholm's cultural and commercial elite transformed it into a community which now welcomes innovation and spreads the fruits of its achievements... more...
In Search of Hobartby Peter Timms
University of NSW Press 2009; Not AvailablePeter Timms leads us on a journey through his adopted city of Hobart, Australias smallest, most southerly, least prosperous, but arguably most beautiful state capital. He reveals a city in transition, shaking off its dark and troubled past to claim its special place in the contemporary world: going boutique, nice and slow, as one overseas visitor notes. From Hobarts convict legacy, its spectacular natural setting, heritage architecture and climate, to crime-rates, economic hardship and the recent disfigurements of the developers, Timms brings a wealth of fresh insights, exploring the city with a mixture of affection, admiration, frustration and sadness, interviewing a wide range of residents along the way. Those who... more...
Orienting Istanbulby Deniz Göktürk; Levent Soysal; Ipek Türeli
Taylor & Francis 2010; US$ 62.95Offers an interdisciplinary study of an iconic city, a city facing conflicting social, political and cultural pressures in its search for a place in Europe and on the world stage in the twenty-first century. more...
Hong Kongby Jan Morris
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2011; US$ 12.99In its last days under British rule, the Crown Colony of Hong Kong is the world's most exciting city, at once fascinating and exasperating, a tangle of contradictions. It is a dazzling amalgam of conspicuous consumption and primitive poverty, the most architecturally incongruous yet undeniably beautiful urban panorama of all. World-renowned travel writer Jan Morris offers the most insightful and comprehensive study of the enigma of Hong Kong thus far. more...
Byzantium and Veniceby Donald M. Nicol
Cambridge University Press 1989; US$ 55.00This book traces the diplomatic, cultural and commercial links between Constantinople and Venice. more...









