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Genre/Form: | History |
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Material Type: | Document, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Aidan Southall |
ISBN: | 9780511621871 0511621876 |
OCLC Number: | 1117597526 |
Language Note: | English. |
Notes: | Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015). |
Description: | 1 online resource (x, 473 pages) : PDF file(s). |
Contents: | Ch. 1. Life of and Influences on the Author Ch. 2. Diary of a Vagabond and the Optimism of the Earlier Works Ch. 3. Loneliness and Travel Ch. 4. Marriage, Family, and Women's Issues Ch. 5. War and Fatalism App. Translations of "My Horizon," "Literature, Travel, Etc.," and "My Work." |
Other Titles: | City in Time & Space |
Responsibility: | Aidan Southall. |
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'Aidan Southall's research in East Africa pioneered what came to be known as urban anthropology. This book offers a unifying vision of the field that has been long and sorely needed. His impressive knowledge of world urbanism, spanning the beginnings of civilisation to the present global oikumene, is deftly used for comparisons over time and between the Old and the New World.' Leonard Plotnicov, University of Pittsburgh 'Professor Southall is probably the only scholar who could have written this book, which distils a lifetime's reflection on the most complex artifact ever devised by man into a narrative intelligible to all with a serious concern for the human environment. This book is a tour de force, a timely blending of theory and experience, which illuminates a broad sector of human social experience and provides a glimpse into the future.' Paul Wheatley, Committee on Social Thought, University of Chicago 'Aidan Southall applies a mature ethnographic sensibility to this sweeping excursion through ten thousand years of city life. From Sumeria, classical Greece, and imperial China through industrial Mancheste, Third World shanty towns and twentieth-century America, we see both humanity's 'splendid achievements' and its capacity to fashion regimes of inequality and grinding poverty.' Roger Sanjek, City University of New York 'This is a book about cities written on the grand scale. ... Southall has produced a magnificent synthesis. ... this is a carefully written and stimulating book and deserves the serious attention of students and academics within the disciplines of anthropology and also sociology, history and political science.' Peter J. Collins, University of Durham Read more...

