Ghosts of the New City: Spirits, Urbanity, and the Ruins of Progress in Chiang Mai 9780824847821

The New Urban Ruins: Vacancy, Urban Politics and International Experiments in the Post-Crisis City 9781447356899

This book provides an innovative perspective to consider contemporary urban challenges through the lens of urban vacancy

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Sensing Spirits: Paranormal Investigation and the Social Construction of Ghosts 9780367030384, 9780429020001

Based on ethnographic research, this book examines the paranormal investigation subculture in the US. Presenting intervi

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Exploring the Spatiality of the City across Cultural Texts: Narrating Spaces, Reading Urbanity 9783030552688, 9783030552695

Exploring the Spatiality of the City across Cultural Texts: Narrating Spaces, Reading Urbanity explores the narrative fo

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Memory, the City and the Legacy of World War II in East Central Europe: The Ghosts of Others 1138914363, 9781138914360

After the Second World War, millions of people across Eastern Europe, displaced as a result of wartime destruction, depo

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The Dead City: Urban Ruins and the Spectacle of Decay 9781350988583, 9781786732408

The Dead City unearths meanings from such depictions of ruination and decay, looking at representations of both thriving

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The Negro at Work in New York City: A Study in Economic Progress 9780231895699

Looks at members of the black community during the end of the 19th and early 20th centuries as workers in New York City

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The City as Anthology: Eroticism and Urbanity in Early Modern Isfahan 9781503627833

Household anthologies of seventeenth-century Isfahan collected everyday texts and objects, from portraits, letters, and

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Aisthetics of the Spirits: Spirits in Early Modern Science, Religion, Literature and Music 9783737004237, 9783847104230, 9783847004233

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The Negro at Work in New York City; a Study in Economic Progress 1363445510, 9781363445516

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization

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Where Humans and Spirits Meet: The Politics of Rituals and Identified Spirits in Zanzibar 9780857450562

Zanzibar, an island off the East African coast, with its Muslim and Swahili population, offers rich material for this st

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