This is a biography of Earthopolis, the only Urban Planet we know of. Carl Nightingale takes readers on a six-continent, six-millennia tour of the world's cities, revealing how they gave humans immense power over Earth, for good and for ill.
This is a biography of Earthopolis, the only Urban Planet we know of. Carl Nightingale takes readers on a six-continent, six-millennia tour of the world's cities, revealing how they gave humans immense power over Earth, for good and for ill.
Carl Nightingale has taught urban history and world history for 25 years as a Professor at the University at Buffalo and the University of Massachusetts. He is Coordinator of the Global Urban History Project, a network of over 500 scholars working in this new hybrid field. His book Segregation: A Global History of Divided Cities (2012) was co-winner of the Jerry Bentley Prize from the World History Association.
Inhaltsangabe
Introduction: Our Urban Planet in Space and Time Prologue: Before and Beyond: Big Things in Tiny Places Part I. Cities of the Rivers: 1. Making Politics from Sunshine, Earth, and Water 2. Igniting Empire 3. Wealth for a Few, Poverty for Many I 4. Wealth for a Few, Poverty for Many II 5. How Knowledge Became Power 6. The Realm of Consequence Part II. Cities of the World Ocean: 7. Bastions, Battleships, and Gunpowder Cities 8. Wealth from the Winds and Waves 9. Consuming the Earth in Cities of Light ... and Delight Part III. Cities of Hydrocarbon: 10. Chimneys to Smokestacks 11. Planet of the People I: The Atlantic Cauldron 12. Planet of the People II: Feminists, Abolitionists, and los Liberales 13. Weapons of World Conquest 14. Capitalist Explosions 15. The Pharoahs of Flow 16. Planet of the People III: An Urban Majority Takes its Space 17. Lamps Out 18. The Labyrinths of Terror 19. Gathering Velocities I: Tailpipe Tracts and Tower Blocks 20. Gathering Velocities II: Liberation and Development 21. Greatest Accelerations I: New Empires, New Multitudes 22. Greatest Accelerations II: Shacks and Citadels 23. Greatest Accelerations III: Pleasure Palaces and Sweatshops 24. Greatest Accelerations IV: Maximal Hydrocarbon, Maximal Waste 25. 2020 Hindsight ... and Foresight? Acknowledgements Notes Index.
Introduction: Our Urban Planet in Space and Time Prologue: Before and Beyond: Big Things in Tiny Places Part I. Cities of the Rivers: 1. Making Politics from Sunshine, Earth, and Water 2. Igniting Empire 3. Wealth for a Few, Poverty for Many I 4. Wealth for a Few, Poverty for Many II 5. How Knowledge Became Power 6. The Realm of Consequence Part II. Cities of the World Ocean: 7. Bastions, Battleships, and Gunpowder Cities 8. Wealth from the Winds and Waves 9. Consuming the Earth in Cities of Light ... and Delight Part III. Cities of Hydrocarbon: 10. Chimneys to Smokestacks 11. Planet of the People I: The Atlantic Cauldron 12. Planet of the People II: Feminists, Abolitionists, and los Liberales 13. Weapons of World Conquest 14. Capitalist Explosions 15. The Pharoahs of Flow 16. Planet of the People III: An Urban Majority Takes its Space 17. Lamps Out 18. The Labyrinths of Terror 19. Gathering Velocities I: Tailpipe Tracts and Tower Blocks 20. Gathering Velocities II: Liberation and Development 21. Greatest Accelerations I: New Empires, New Multitudes 22. Greatest Accelerations II: Shacks and Citadels 23. Greatest Accelerations III: Pleasure Palaces and Sweatshops 24. Greatest Accelerations IV: Maximal Hydrocarbon, Maximal Waste 25. 2020 Hindsight ... and Foresight? Acknowledgements Notes Index.
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