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Atlantic Unbound

Europe, North America, and the Caribbean in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The book centers on France during the expansion of its colonial empire and the French Revolution, Saint-Domingue during…

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The Slum and the City

|9780822948094|Culture and Dissidence in the Villas Miseria of Buenos Aires|The Argentine capital is largely perceived as a middle-class space. Yet in reality, urban poverty and precarious settlements are defining features…

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Pittsburgh

…city and an international center for science, medicine, biotechnology, and financial services, Pittsburgh is now routinely acclaimed as one of the most promising and livable of America’s cities. Franklin Toker…

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Nature’s Entrepot

|9780822966500|Philadelphia’s Urban Sphere and Its Environmental Thresholds| In Nature’s Entrepot, the contributors view the planning, expansion, and sustainability of the urban environment of Philadelphia from its inception to the present….

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Staging Buenos Aires

…industrialization resulted in the visible decline of patriarchal social structures, made most visible in the urban sphere.| Kristen L. McCleary| Pitt Latin American Series| History / Latin America / General…

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