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Carl Nightingale

Our Urban Planet in Theory and History

This Element offers seven propositions toward a theory of 'Our Urban Planet' that is useful to global urban historians. I argue that historians have much to offer to theorists particularly those involved …

Maria-Aparecida Lopes, María Cecilia Zuleta

Foodways in the Twentieth-Century City

"Foodways in the Twentieth-Century City explores a fundamental question through the lens of the modern metropolis: How did the experience of food and eating evolve throughout the twentieth century? In ans…

Ambe J. Njoh

Africa in Urban History

"This Element explores Africa's urban history using race, ethnicity, class, and conflict theory. It proposes a new typology of African cities, focuses on Indigenous cities, and uses conflict, interactioni…

Jonathan Wilson

The Power and the Glory

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Jonathan Wilson

The Power and the Glory

The football World Cup is the most watched sporting event on the planet. It has become a global obsession: 211 nations initially entered the 2022 edition. It has been running for almost a century. Yet the…

Yonatan Binyam, Verena Krebs

"Ethiopia" and the World, 330-1500 CE

This Cambridge Element offers an interdisciplinary introduction to the histories of the Ethiopian and Eritrean highlands from late antiquity to the late medieval period, updating traditional Western acade…

Theory Of A Deadman

Say Nothing

Theory Of A Deadman ist eine vierköpfige, kanadische Rock-Band. Die Band veröffentlichte seit ihrer Gründung im Jahre 2001 sechs Studioalben, die alle die Top 15 der kanadischen Charts erreichten (Pea…

Rethinking Global History

"This collection of essays by leading global historians sheds light on the field's conceptual foundations and analytical instruments. Readers are guided to question implicit assumptions, critically assess…

Clifton Crais

The Killing Age

A bracing account of how our current planetary crisis emerged from the worst cataclysmic destruction in human history, which Clifton Crais terms the Mortecene--the killing age. We are used to speaking o…

Shakespears Sister

Singles Party (1988 - 2019)

26 Jahre nach ihrer offiziellen Auflösung haben sich die Shakespears Sister wieder vereint! Das feiern Siobhan Fahey und Marcella Detroit mit einer Best-Of-CD ihres kompletten Schaffens. Auf der CD befind…

John Ellis

A Short History of Relations Between Peoples

A Short History of Relations Between Peoples traces how the cultural attitudes that different peoples and nations had toward each other have undergone a profound and positive change during the last 500 ye…

Dorothy Armstrong

Threads of Empire

A spellbinding look at the history of the world through the stories of twelve carpets

Kevin Eason,

The Times Speed

'This book expertly captures the extraordinary events and legendary drivers who made the sport what it is today. A must-read for any F1 fan.' -Zak Brown, CEO, McLaren Racing, Winner of the 2024 World Cons…

Ismay Milford

African Activists in a Decolonising World

A history of global decolonisation and anticolonialism, told through East and Central African activists in the 1950s and 1960s.

Chris Mattison

The Lives of Snakes

A richly illustrated introduction to the marvelous world of snakes Descended from prehistoric lizards, snakes have been slithering across the earth for more than a hundred million years. There are some 4…

David Lowe

The Colombo Plan

Conceived in 1950, the Colombo Plan for Co-operative Development in South and Southeast Asia was a unique experiment in foreign relations. Meeting annually across what we now know as the 'Indo-Pacific', t…

Hands Across The Water

Eric Bellin

Detailing Worlds

What is a "detail" in architecture? The concept of detail has long played an important role in the discourse and practice of architects, but the meaning of the term has been understood in radically differ…

Ian Morley

The City Beautiful and the Globalization of Urban Planning

"This Element discusses how urbanists have long portrayed urban design and planning models globally, but the American City Beautiful has been less explored due to its ethnocentric focus on North America. …