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The Growth of Non-Western Cities - Primary and Secondary Urban Networking, c. 900-1900 (Paperback): Kenneth R. Hall The Growth of Non-Western Cities - Primary and Secondary Urban Networking, c. 900-1900 (Paperback)
Kenneth R. Hall; Contributions by Christopher Agnew, Michael H. Chiang, Hugh Clark, Marc Jason Gilbert, …
R1,284 Discovery Miles 12 840 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

These interdisciplinary studies address pre-1900 non-Western urban growth in the African Sudan, Mexico, the Ottoman Middle East, and South, Southeast, and East Asia. Therein, primary and secondary cities served as functional societal agents that were viable and potentially powerful alternatives to the diversity of kinship-based local or regional networks, the societal delegated spaces in which local and external agencies met and interacted in a wide variety of political, economic, spiritual, and military forms. They were variously transportation centers, sites of a central temples, court and secular administration centers, fortified military compounds, intellectual (literary) activity cores, and marketplace and/or craft production sites. One element of these urban centers' existence might have been more important than others, as a political capital, a cultural capital, or an economic capital. In the post-1500 era of increasing globalization, especially with the introduction of new technologies of transport, communication, and warfare, non-Western cities even more became the hubs of knowledge, societal, and cultural formation and exchange because of the location of both markets and political centers in urban areas. New forms of professionalism, militarization, and secular bureaucratization were foundational to centralizing state hierarchies that could exert more control over their networked segments. This book's authors consciously attempt to balance the histories of functional urban agency between the local and the exogenous, giving weight to local activities, events, beliefs, institutions, communities, individuals, and historical narratives. In several studies, both external and internal societal prejudices and the inability of key decision makers to understand indigenous reality led to negative consequences both in the local environment and in the global arena.

Secondary Cities and Urban Networking in the Indian Ocean Realm, c. 1400-1800 (Paperback): Kenneth R. Hall Secondary Cities and Urban Networking in the Indian Ocean Realm, c. 1400-1800 (Paperback)
Kenneth R. Hall; Contributions by Charles Argo, John Chaffee, Stewart Gordon, Alexandra Green, …
R1,334 Discovery Miles 13 340 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

With the closure of the overland Silk Road in the fourteenth century following the collapse of the Mongol empire, the Indian Ocean provided the remaining vital link for wider cultural, political, and societal integrations prior to the Western colonial presence. Collectively, these studies explore the history of non-metropolitan urban settings c. 1400-1800 in the Indian Ocean realm, from the Ottoman Empire and the African coastline at the mouth of the Red Sea in the west to China in the east. This was an age of heightened international commercial exchange that pre-dated the European arrival, which in the Indian Ocean paired Islamic expansionism and political authority, and, alternately, in the case of mainland Southeast Asia, partnered Buddhism with new centralizing monarchies. While grounded in multi-disciplinary urban studies literature, the twelve studies in this collection explore secondary center networking, as this networking distinguishes secondary cities from metropolitan centers, which have traditionally received the most scholarly attention. The book features the research of international scholars, whose work addresses the representative history of small cities and urban networking in various parts of the Indian Ocean world in an era of change, allowing them the opportunity to compare approaches, methods, and sources in the hopes of discovering common features as well as notable differences. This volume is the result of a 2007 conference on 'The Small City in Global Context, ' hosted by the Center for Middletown Studies at Ball State University, Muncie, Indiana, intended to expand the field of urban studies by encouraging scholars of diverse global interests and specializations to explore the history of non-metropolitan urban settings.

Alaska - Twenty Poems and a Journal (Paperback, 2nd ed.): Brod Bagert Alaska - Twenty Poems and a Journal (Paperback, 2nd ed.)
Brod Bagert; Contributions by Stephen Morillo
R240 R200 Discovery Miles 2 000 Save R40 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Secondary Cities and Urban Networking in the Indian Ocean Realm, c. 1400-1800 (Hardcover): Kenneth R. Hall Secondary Cities and Urban Networking in the Indian Ocean Realm, c. 1400-1800 (Hardcover)
Kenneth R. Hall; Contributions by Charles Argo, John Chaffee, Stewart Gordon, Alexandra Green, …
R3,235 R1,106 Discovery Miles 11 060 Save R2,129 (66%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

With the closure of the overland Silk Road in the fourteenth century following the collapse of the Mongol empire, the Indian Ocean provided the remaining vital link for wider cultural, political, and societal integrations prior to the Western colonial presence. Collectively, these studies explore the history of non-metropolitan urban settings c. 1400-1800 in the Indian Ocean realm, from the Ottoman Empire and the African coastline at the mouth of the Red Sea in the west to China in the east. This was an age of heightened international commercial exchange that pre-dated the European arrival, which in the Indian Ocean paired Islamic expansionism and political authority, and, alternately, in the case of mainland Southeast Asia, partnered Buddhism with new centralizing monarchies. While grounded in multi-disciplinary urban studies literature, the twelve studies in this collection explore secondary center networking, as this networking distinguishes secondary cities from metropolitan centers, which have traditionally received the most scholarly attention. The book features the research of international scholars, whose work addresses the representative history of small cities and urban networking in various parts of the Indian Ocean world in an era of change, allowing them the opportunity to compare approaches, methods, and sources in the hopes of discovering common features as well as notable differences. This volume is the result of a 2007 conference on "The Small City in Global Context," hosted by the Center for Middletown Studies at Ball State University, Muncie, Indiana, intended to expand the field of urban studies by encouraging scholars of diverse global interests and specializations to explore the history of non-metropolitan urban settings.

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