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Product Description: This book traces the history of the U Street neighborhood in Washington, D.C., from its Civil Warâera origins to its recent gentrification. Home throughout the years to important scholars, entertainers, and political figures, as well as to historically prominent African American institutions, Washingtonâs U Street neighborhood is a critical zone of contact between black and white America...read more
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9781421405940 | Johns Hopkins Univ Pr, January 5, 2012, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: This book traces the history of the U Street neighborhood in Washington, D.
Product Description: This book, first published in 1981, represents a systematic attempt to describe and analyse the evolution of Soviet trade union organisations. It examines union activities both at the national level and on the shop floor. The main focus is on the development and workings of the Soviet trade unions, but their history throughout the Soviet period is also covered...read more
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9780521237048 | Cambridge Univ Pr, August 1, 1981, cover price $54.95 | About this edition: This book, first published in 1981, represents a systematic attempt to describe and analyse the evolution of Soviet trade union organisations.
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9780521124454, titled "Soviet Trade Unions: Their Development in the 1970s" | 1 edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, December 3, 2009), cover price $39.99 | About this edition: This book, first published in 1981, represents a systematic attempt to describe and analyse the evolution of Soviet trade union organisations.
Product Description: As the worldâs urban populations grow, cities become spaces where increasingly diverse peoples negotiate such differences as language, citizenship, ethnicity and race, class and wealth, and gender. Using a comparative framework, Urban Diversity examines the multiple meanings of inclusion and exclusion in fast-changing urban contexts...read more
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9780801898013 | Johns Hopkins Univ Pr, September 7, 2010, cover price $65.00 | About this edition: As the worldâs urban populations grow, cities become spaces where increasingly diverse peoples negotiate such differences as language, citizenship, ethnicity and race, class and wealth, and gender.
Product Description: Cities after the Fall of Communism traces the cultural reorientation of East European cities since 1989. Analyzing the architecture, commemorative practices, and urban planning of cities such as Lviv, Vilnius, and Odessa, the contributors to this volume demonstrate how history may be selectively re-imagined in light of present political and cultural realities...read more
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9780801891915 | 1 edition (Johns Hopkins Univ Pr, February 10, 2009), cover price $65.00 | About this edition: Cities after the Fall of Communism traces the cultural reorientation of East European cities since 1989.
Product Description: In nations across the globe, immigration policies have abandoned strategies of multiculturalism in favor of a "play the game by our rules or leave" mentality. Immigration and Integration in Urban Communities shows how immigrants negotiate with longtime residents over economic, political, cultural, and linguistic boundaries...read more
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9780801888410 | Johns Hopkins Univ Pr, May 28, 2008, cover price $55.00 | About this edition: In nations across the globe, immigration policies have abandoned strategies of multiculturalism in favor of a "play the game by our rules or leave" mentality.
Product Description: An examination of post-Soviet society through ethnic, religious, and linguistic criteria, this volume turns what is typically anthropological subject matter into the basis of politics, sociology, and history.Ten chapters cover such diverse subjects as Ukrainian language revival, Tatar language revival, nationalist separatism and assimilation in Russia, religious pluralism in Russia and in Ukraine, mobilization against Chinese immigration, and even the politics of mapmaking...read more
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9780801885624 | Johns Hopkins Univ Pr, November 29, 2006, cover price $55.00 | About this edition: An examination of post-Soviet society through ethnic, religious, and linguistic criteria, this volume turns what is typically anthropological subject matter into the basis of politics, sociology, and history.
Product Description: Money Sings explores the sweeping reorganization of Russian life during the initial post-Soviet era (August 1991-December 1993) by examining the politics of property in a Russian "Middletown," the historic industrial city of Yaroslavl...read more
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9780521482424 | Cambridge Univ Pr, May 1, 1995, cover price $119.99
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9780521026017 | 1 edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, April 30, 2006), cover price $44.99 | About this edition: Money Sings explores the sweeping reorganization of Russian life during the initial post-Soviet era (August 1991-December 1993) by examining the politics of property in a Russian "Middletown," the historic industrial city of Yaroslavl.
Product Description: How do urban communities accommodate this century's massive transnational migrations? This volume seeks clues about how a city's capacity for urban social sustainability, termed "diversity capital," may expand under such conditions...read more
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9780801883002 | Johns Hopkins Univ Pr, November 2, 2005, cover price $48.00 | About this edition: How do urban communities accommodate this century's massive transnational migrations?
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9780801883019 | Johns Hopkins Univ Pr, October 31, 2005, cover price $22.95 | About this edition: How do urban communities accommodate this century's massive transnational migrations?
Product Description: The Putin and Bush presidencies, the 9/11 attack, and the war in Iraq have changed the dynamics of Russian-European-US relations and strained the Western alliance. Featuring contributions by leading experts in the field, this work is the first systematic effort to reassess the status of Russia's modernization efforts in this context...read more
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9780765614414 | M E Sharpe Inc, September 1, 2004, cover price $158.00
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9780765614421 | M E Sharpe Inc, June 30, 2005, cover price $47.95 | About this edition: The Putin and Bush presidencies, the 9/11 attack, and the war in Iraq have changed the dynamics of Russian-European-US relations and strained the Western alliance.
By comparing North America's, Russia's, and Japan's "second cities"--Chicago, Moscow, and Osaka--Second Metropolis discloses the extent to which social fragmentation, frequently viewed as an obstacle to democratic development, actually fostered a "pragmatic pluralism" that nurtured pluralistic public policies. Such policies are explored through six case studies that illustrate how even those with massive political and economic power were stymied by the complexity of their communities. These three cities, though the products of very different nations and cultures, shared an important experience of inclusive politics during an era of extraordinary growth and social diversity. (view table of contents)
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9780521801799 | Cambridge Univ Pr, May 1, 2001, cover price $69.99 | About this edition: By comparing North America's, Russia's, and Japan's "second cities"--Chicago, Moscow, and Osaka--Second Metropolis discloses the extent to which social fragmentation, frequently viewed as an obstacle to democratic development, actually fostered a "pragmatic pluralism" that nurtured pluralistic public policies.
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9781930365155 | Woodrow Wilson Center Pr, March 11, 2004, cover price $24.95
Product Description: Composing Urban History and the Constitution of Civic Identities tells the story of how fractured urban communities sometimes succeed and sometimes fail at creating a way of life embracing the many varieties of people and institutions that make cities both urban and urbane...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780801873850 | Woodrow Wilson Center Pr, July 29, 2003, cover price $59.95 | About this edition: Composing Urban History and the Constitution of Civic Identities tells the story of how fractured urban communities sometimes succeed and sometimes fail at creating a way of life embracing the many varieties of people and institutions that make cities both urban and urbane.
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9780801865701 | Johns Hopkins Univ Pr, January 31, 2002, cover price $48.00
Product Description: More and more of the world's people live in urban areas, which share the same problems: unemployment, corroding infrastructure, deteriorating environment, a collapsing social compact, and weakening institutions. To ask why this is happening and what can be done, twenty-two leading social scientists and experienced public officials have pooled their experience and their research in preparation for the June 1996 United Nations conference on human settlement in Istanbul...read more
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9780943875781 | Woodrow Wilson Center Pr, February 1, 1996, cover price $55.00
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9780943875798 | Woodrow Wilson Center Pr, February 1, 1996, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: More and more of the world's people live in urban areas, which share the same problems: unemployment, corroding infrastructure, deteriorating environment, a collapsing social compact, and weakening institutions.
Product Description: The chapters in this book, by specialists in various areas of modern Russian history and culture, explore the ways in which Russians during the past century have provided one of the most basic of human needs--housing. At the end of the nineteenth century, Russian housing reflected both tradition and sweeping social change, from the peasant countryside to the growth of major new urban centers...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780521431972 | Cambridge Univ Pr, July 1, 1993, cover price $155.00 | About this edition: The chapters in this book, by specialists in various areas of modern Russian history and culture, explore the ways in which Russians during the past century have provided one of the most basic of human needs--housing.
Product Description: Throughout much of this century, cities around the world have sought to gain control over their urban destinies through concerted government action. Nowhere has this process of state intervention gone further than in the Soviet Union...read more
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9780520065345 | Univ of California Pr, June 1, 1990, cover price $85.00 | About this edition: Throughout much of this century, cities around the world have sought to gain control over their urban destinies through concerted government action.
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9780877723479 | Univ of California Inst of, December 1, 1990, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Throughout much of this century, cities around the world have sought to gain control over their urban destinies through concerted government action.
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9780043311080 | Unwin Hyman, November 1, 1986, cover price $44.95 | About this edition: varieties of dualism
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9780080238999 | Pergamon Pr, January 1, 1980, cover price $14.00
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9780080237015 | Pergamon Pr, January 1, 1980, cover price $50.00
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