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  • THE WORLDS OF VICTOR SASSOON
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    THE WORLDS OF VICTOR SASSOON
    ROSEMARY WAKEMAN
    An interpretative history of global urbanity in the 1920s and 1930s, from the vantage point of Bombay, London, and Shanghai, that follows the life of business tycoon Victor Sassoon.   In this book, historian Rosemary Wakeman brings to life the frenzied, crowded streets, markets, ports, and banks of Bombay, London, and Shanghai. In the early twentieth century, these cities were ...

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  • PRACTICING UTOPIA
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    PRACTICING UTOPIA
    ROSEMARY WAKEMAN
    The typical town springs up around a natural resource—a river, an ocean, an exceptionally deep harbor—or in proximity to a larger, already thriving town. Not so with “new towns,” which are created by decree rather than out of necessity and are often intended to break from the tendencies of past development. New towns aren’t a new thing—ancient Phoenicians named their colonies Q...

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  • THE HEROIC CITY
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    THE HEROIC CITY
    ROSEMARY WAKEMAN
    The Heroic City is a sparkling account of the fate of Paris’s public spaces in the years following Nazi occupation and joyful liberation. Countering the traditional narrative that Paris’s public landscape became sterile and dehumanized in the 1940s and ’50s, Rosemary Wakeman instead finds that the city’s streets overflowed with ritual, drama, and spectacle. With frequent strike...

    $856.25

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