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    Glasgow : high-rise homes, estates and communities in the post-war period (2020)
    London ; New York :Routledge,
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    ISBN: 978-1-138-31709-3
    Language: English
    Pages: vi, 134 Seiten : , Illustrationen ; , 23 cm.
    Series Statement: Built environment city studies
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    RVK:
    NR 8535
    RVK:
    QY 500
    RVK:
    MS 1810
    Keywords: Glasgow (Scotland) / Corporation ; Great Britain ; 1900-1999 ; High-rise apartment buildings / Great Britain / History / 20th century ; Housing / Great Britain / History / 20th century ; High-rise apartment buildings ; Housing ; History
    Abstract: "In the wake of an unparalleled housing crisis at the end of World War II, Glasgow Corporation rehoused the hundreds of thousands of private tenants who were living in overcrowded and unsanitary conditions in unimproved Victorian slums. Adopting the designs, the materials and the technologies of modernity they built into the sky, developing high rise estates on vacant sites within the city and on its periphery. This book uniquely focuses on the peoples' experience of this modern approach to housing, drawing on oral histories and archival materials to reflect on the long-term narrative and significance of high rise homes in the cityscape. It positions them as places of identity formation, intimacy and well-being. With discussions on interior design and consumption, gender roles, children, the elderly, privacy, isolation, social networks and nuisance, Glasgow examines the connections between architectural design, planning decisions and housing experience to offer some timely and prescient observations on the success and failure of this very modern housing solution at a moment when high flats are simultaneously denigrated in the social housing sector while being built afresh in the private sector. Glasgow is aimed at an academic readership, including postgraduate students, scholars and researchers. It will be of interest to social, cultural and urban historians particularly interested in the United Kingdom"--
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    Stone men : the Palestinians who built Israel (2019)
    London ; Brooklyn, NY :Verso,
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    ISBN: 9781788730266 , 1788730267
    Language: English
    Pages: xx, 299 Seiten, : , Illustrationen ; , 24 cm.
    RVK:
    MH 84968
    RVK:
    MH 85010
    RVK:
    ML 9340
    RVK:
    MS 1246
    RVK:
    QR 550
    Keywords: Israel ; Middle East / Palestine ; Construction industry / Palestine ; Stonemasonry / Palestine ; Stonemasons / Palestine ; Palestinian Arabs / Employment / Israel ; Arab-Israeli conflict / Economic aspects ; Labor supply / Palestine / History ; Construction industry ; Labor supply ; Palestinian Arabs / Employment ; Stonemasonry ; Stonemasons ; History
    Abstract: "They demolish our houses while we build theirs." This is how a Palestinian stonemason, in line at a checkpoint outside a Jerusalem suburb, described his life to Andrew Ross. Palestinian "stone men", utilizing some of the best quality dolomitic limestone deposits in the world and drawing on generations of artisanal knowledge, have built almost every state in the Middle East except their own. Today the business of quarrying, cutting, fabrication, and dressing is Palestine's largest employer and generator of revenue, supplying the construction industry in Israel, along with other Middle East countries and even more overseas. Drawing on hundreds of interviews in Palestine and Israel, Ross's engrossing, surprising, and gracefully written story of this fascinating, ancient trade shows how the stones of Palestine, and Palestinian labor, have been used to build out the state of Israel-in the process, constructing "facts on the ground"-even while the industry is central to Palestinians' own efforts to erect bulwarks against the Occupation. For decades, the hands that built Israel's houses, schools, offices, bridges, and even its separation barriers have been Palestinian. Looking at the Palestine-Israel conflict in a new light, this book asks how this record of achievement and labor can be recognized
    Description / Table of Contents: Conquest and manpower (historic Palestine) -- From kurkar to concrete and back (Jaffa/Tel aviv) -- Old and new facts -- Renovating the West Bank (Ramallah) -- City on a hilltop (Rawabi) -- Stones of Bethlehem (Jerusalem/Bethlehem) -- Extract, export, and extort (Beit Fajjar) -- Human gold (green line)
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    Crashed : how a decade of financial crises changed the world (2019)
    [London] :Penguin Books,
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    ISBN: 978-0-14-103221-4 , 0-14-103221-9
    Language: English
    Pages: xiv, 706 Seiten : , Diagramme ; , 20 cm.
    Series Statement: Penguin history economics
    DDC: 332.042
    RVK:
    MK 8500
    RVK:
    MS 4800
    RVK:
    QK 600
    RVK:
    QK 620
    RVK:
    QK 640
    Keywords: Geschichte 2008-2018 ; Geschichte 2008-2017 ; Global Financial Crisis, 2008-2009 ; Financial crises / Social aspects / History / 21st century ; Global Financial Crisis (2008-2009) ; Financial crises ; Social aspects ; History ; Finanzkrise. ; Auswirkung. ; Eurozone. ; Finanzkrise ; Geschichte 2008-2018 ; Finanzkrise ; Auswirkung ; Geschichte 2008-2017
    Abstract: 'Majestic, informative and often delightful ... insights on every page' Yanis Varoufakis, Observer The definitive history of the Great Financial Crisis, from the acclaimed author of The Deluge and The Wages of Destruction. In September 2008 the Great Financial Crisis, triggered by the collapse of Lehman brothers, shook the world. A decade later its spectre still haunts us. As the appalling scope and scale of the crash was revealed, the financial institutions that had symbolised the West's triumph since the end of the Cold War, seemed - through greed, malice and incompetence - to be about to bring the entire system to its knees. Crashed is a brilliantly original and assured analysis of what happened and how we were rescued from something even worse - but at a price which continues to undermine democracy across Europe and the United States. Gnawing away at our institutions are the many billions of dollars which were conjured up to prevent complete collapse. Over and over again, the end of the crisis has been announced, but it continues to hound us - whether in Greece or Ukraine, whether through Brexit or Trump. Adam Tooze follows the trail like no previous writer and has written a book compelling as history, as economic analysis and as political horror story
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