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The relentless growth of cities in developing countries is inevitable - and irreversible. This work reviews innovative urban management, discusses the latest findings on key issues of urban management, and identifies policy - relevant research needs and priorities. Case studies are included.

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This book takes an entirely new approach to the evolution of cities and of societies in premodern periods. Refining the theory advanced in his earlier study of China and Japan, Gilbert Rozman examines the development of Russia over several centuries with emphasis on the period immediately preceding the Industrial Revolution. He makes possible compa

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Illuminating the importance of culture in community planning, this book reveals why previous planning practices have failed and suggests that improvements can be made by taking into consideration the diverse needs of a multicultural society.

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Carefully limiting his analysis to the correlation of residential proximity and marriage, social cast/class structures, and occupational status, Dr. Beshers clearly demonstrates how census tract data, official registrations of residence on marriage licenses, and other information can be used to reinforce and corroborate sociological hypotheses.

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This wide-ranging and state-of-the-art new edition reviews the classic contributions to understanding modern and post-modern cities, and is comprehensively updated to take account of the issues and concepts at stake in 21st century urban theory.

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This reference work provides a summary of historical and contemporary aspects of urbanization in Africa. The second part provides detailed studies of urbanization in fifteen highly urbanized African countries.

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This text focuses on the question of whether China is already urbanized. Each of the contributors considers the degree to which the town-country dichotomy has been obliterated in the China of the 1980s and 1990s. The strengths and weaknesses of the transformation are assessed.

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More than ever before, ethnic struggle finds expression in the growing incidence and scale of displaced persons and refugee flows, as well as in exacerbated levels of ethnic minority abuse and involuntary assimilation.

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On an otherwise ordinary Sunday morning in 1964, millions of Roman Catholics around the world experienced history. For the first time in centuries, they attended masses that were conducted mostly in their native tongues. This occasion marked only the first of many profound changes to emanate from the Second Vatican Council (1962-1965). Known popula

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Explores what the life of the home schoolroom was actually like. Drawing on original diaries and a variety of sources, the author describes why the period 1840-80 was the classic age of the governess. She examines their numbers, recruitment, teaching methods, social position and prospects.

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As a point of comparison, the authors also examine differences between the villagers and rural migrants living in two districts of Seoul.

An introductory chapter presents the major political developments and cultural features in Korea from the Yi dynasty through the Roh regime.

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The acclaimed biographer of T.S. Eliot, Charlotte Bronte, Virginia Woolf and Henry James turns now to one of the greatest women of history. 'A biography that's as passionate and humane as its subject' Kelly Grovier, Observer

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This extremely valuable collection of fourteen chapters is divided into two sections, with the first section covering research on physical abuse in dating relationships and the second section covering the issue of sexual abuse in dating relationships.

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Examines how hegemonic masculinity is reproduced not only through violence against women, but violence in an LGBTQ+ context, as well as showing how violence is in turn fuelled by societys attitudes towards masculinity.

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By looking at a range of texts, events and biographical narratives, this book traces cosmopolitanism from its marginal status at the beginning of the twentieth century to its relative normalisation. It offers an account of the uneven history of vernacular cosmopolitanism.

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By looking at a range of texts, events and biographical narratives, this book traces cosmopolitanism from its marginal status at the beginning of the twentieth century to its relative normalisation. It offers an account of the uneven history of vernacular cosmopolitanism.