A Theory of Urbanity: The Economic and Civic Culture of Cities 1412808200, 9781412808200

Constantine and the Cities: Imperial Authority and Civic Politics 9780812292237

Roman Emperor Constantine raised Christianity from a minority religion to imperial status, but his religious orientation

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Globalization, Violence and the Visual Culture of Cities 9781134016907, 1134016905

What connects garbage dumps in New York, bomb sites in Baghdad, and skyscrapers in São Paulo? How is contemporary visual

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The Missing Child in Liberal Theory: Towards a Covenant Theory of Family, Community, Welfare and the Civic State 9781487585853

The Missing Child in Liberal Theory opens public discourse on what it is Canadians hold in common through their provisio

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The Economic Theory of Annuities 9781400829422

Annuities are financial products that guarantee the holder a fixed return so long as the holder remains alive, thereby p

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The Playful Citizen: Civic Engagement in a Mediatized Culture 9789048535200

This edited volume collects current research by academics and practitioners on playful citizen participation through dig

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Fetishism and Culture: A Different Theory of Modernity 9783110303452, 9783110303346

Hartmut Böhme’s study of fetishism spans all the way from Christian image magic in the Middle Ages to fetishistic practi

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Self-Help and Civic Culture 9780815396963, 9781351149488

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The End of the Experiment: The Rise of Cultural Elites and the Decline of America's Civic Culture 1351295624, 9781351295628

The End of the Experiment ties together Stanley Rothman's theory of post-industrialism and his four decades of rese

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The Culture of Cities 978-1-5040-3134-9, 1504031342

A visionary survey of urbanism from the Middle Ages to the late 1930s, with a new introduction by Thomas Fisher Consider

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The Economic Theory of Structure and Change 0521345162

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