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Easy On Easy by Jack Williams Hardcover | Indigo Chapters
~EN HC NWISBN: 9780813938851 bzw. 0813938856, vermutlich in Englisch, University Press of Virginia, Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika, gebundenes Buch, neu.
Lieferung aus: Kanada, Lagernd, zzgl. Versandkosten.
Life outside our nation's big cities comprises a remarkably rich aspect of America—culturally, historically, and physically. Because of the way we move through the country, however—on roads built for maximum expediency—most of us are rarely if ever exposed to these small communities, a trend that is moving these towns dangerously far off the maps of commerce and public consciousness. In Easy On, Easy Off, Jack Williams takes to the roads of the interstate highway system to explore America's small towns, bringing back diverse examples of both beautiful and neglected places that illustrate how shifts in modern transportation have influenced urban form. Most of these communities are little known beyond their discrete regions, yet their struggles to prosper are universal. Mill towns, county-seat court squares, villages of the Great Plains, mining towns, and California''s forgotten Chinese settlements all share similar fates—overshadowed by interstate off-ramp towns and bypassed by high-speed traffic. Employing more than 150 historic maps and images, unique drawings, and contemporary photographs, Williams convincingly argues that irreversible changes have overtaken the landscapes of small-town America, with each community's economic and social vitality slowly shifting away to other commercial places that attach to our highway interchanges and extrude into strip malls. A tale of success perhaps for the highway system, the more urgent story relayed in Easy On, Easy Off is of the loss of the complex fabric of thousands of small towns that once defined this nation. Preparation of this volume has been supported by Furthermore: a program of the J. M. Kaplan Fund | Easy On Easy by Jack Williams Hardcover | Indigo Chapters.
Life outside our nation's big cities comprises a remarkably rich aspect of America—culturally, historically, and physically. Because of the way we move through the country, however—on roads built for maximum expediency—most of us are rarely if ever exposed to these small communities, a trend that is moving these towns dangerously far off the maps of commerce and public consciousness. In Easy On, Easy Off, Jack Williams takes to the roads of the interstate highway system to explore America's small towns, bringing back diverse examples of both beautiful and neglected places that illustrate how shifts in modern transportation have influenced urban form. Most of these communities are little known beyond their discrete regions, yet their struggles to prosper are universal. Mill towns, county-seat court squares, villages of the Great Plains, mining towns, and California''s forgotten Chinese settlements all share similar fates—overshadowed by interstate off-ramp towns and bypassed by high-speed traffic. Employing more than 150 historic maps and images, unique drawings, and contemporary photographs, Williams convincingly argues that irreversible changes have overtaken the landscapes of small-town America, with each community's economic and social vitality slowly shifting away to other commercial places that attach to our highway interchanges and extrude into strip malls. A tale of success perhaps for the highway system, the more urgent story relayed in Easy On, Easy Off is of the loss of the complex fabric of thousands of small towns that once defined this nation. Preparation of this volume has been supported by Furthermore: a program of the J. M. Kaplan Fund | Easy On Easy by Jack Williams Hardcover | Indigo Chapters.
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The King is Dead, Long Live the King! (2022)
~EN HC NWISBN: 9781529383317 bzw. 1529383315, vermutlich in Englisch, Hodder & Stoughton, gebundenes Buch, neu.
Unforgettable as it was, the public response to the death of Queen Elizabeth II in September 2022 was not without precedent. When her great-grandfather King Edward VII - glamorous, cosmopolitan and extraordinarily popular - died in May 1910, the political, social and cultural anxieties of a nation in turmoil were temporarily set aside during a summer of intense and ritualised mourning.In The King is Dead, Long Live the King! Martin Williams charts a period of tension and transition as one era slipped away and another took shape. Witnessed by a diverse but interconnected cast of characters - crowned heads and Cabinet ministers, debutantes and suffragettes, artists and murderers - here is the swansong of Edwardian Britain. Set against a backdrop of bereavement and parliamentary crisis overshadowed by the gathering clouds of war, we see a people caught between past and future, tradition and modernity, as they unite to bid farewell to a much-loved monarch who had personified his age. From Buckingham Palace to Bloomsbury, and from the lying-in-state in Westminster Hall to a now legendary Royal Ascot enveloped in black, this is a vivid evocation of a world on the brink of seismic upheaval.
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Easy on, Easy off
EN NWISBN: 9780813938851 bzw. 0813938856, in Englisch, University of Virginia Press, neu.
Lieferung aus: Vereinigtes Königreich Großbritannien und Nordirland, in-stock.
Life outside our nation's big cities comprises a remarkably rich aspect of America-culturally, historically, and physically. Because of the way we move through the country, however-on roads built for maximum expediency-most of us are rarely if ever exposed to these small communities, a trend that is moving these towns dangerously far off the maps of commerce and public consciousness. In Easy On, Easy Off, Jack Williams takes to the roads of the interstate highway system to explore America's small towns, bringing back diverse examples of both beautiful and neglected places that illustrate how shifts in modern transportation have influenced urban form. Most of these communities are little known beyond their discrete regions, yet their struggles to prosper are universal. Mill towns, county-seat court squares, villages of the Great Plains, mining towns, and California's forgotten Chinese settlements all share similar fates-overshadowed by interstate off-ramp towns and bypassed by high-speed traffic. Employing more than 150 historic maps and images, unique drawings, and contemporary photographs, Williams convincingly argues that irreversible changes have overtaken the landscapes of small-town America, with each community's economic and social vitality slowly shifting away to other commercial places that attach to our highway interchanges and extrude into strip malls. A tale of success perhaps for the highway system, the more urgent story relayed in Easy On, Easy Off is of the loss of the complex fabric of thousands of small towns that once defined this nation.
Life outside our nation's big cities comprises a remarkably rich aspect of America-culturally, historically, and physically. Because of the way we move through the country, however-on roads built for maximum expediency-most of us are rarely if ever exposed to these small communities, a trend that is moving these towns dangerously far off the maps of commerce and public consciousness. In Easy On, Easy Off, Jack Williams takes to the roads of the interstate highway system to explore America's small towns, bringing back diverse examples of both beautiful and neglected places that illustrate how shifts in modern transportation have influenced urban form. Most of these communities are little known beyond their discrete regions, yet their struggles to prosper are universal. Mill towns, county-seat court squares, villages of the Great Plains, mining towns, and California's forgotten Chinese settlements all share similar fates-overshadowed by interstate off-ramp towns and bypassed by high-speed traffic. Employing more than 150 historic maps and images, unique drawings, and contemporary photographs, Williams convincingly argues that irreversible changes have overtaken the landscapes of small-town America, with each community's economic and social vitality slowly shifting away to other commercial places that attach to our highway interchanges and extrude into strip malls. A tale of success perhaps for the highway system, the more urgent story relayed in Easy On, Easy Off is of the loss of the complex fabric of thousands of small towns that once defined this nation.
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The King is Dead Long Live the King by Martin Williams Hardcover | Indigo Chapters
~EN HC NWISBN: 9781529383317 bzw. 1529383315, vermutlich in Englisch, gebundenes Buch, neu.
Lieferung aus: Kanada, Lagernd, zzgl. Versandkosten.
The King is Dead Long Live the King by Martin Williams Hardcover | Indigo Chapters.
The King is Dead Long Live the King by Martin Williams Hardcover | Indigo Chapters.
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The King is Dead Long Live the King!
DE HC NWISBN: 9781529383317 bzw. 1529383315, in Deutsch, Hodder & Stoughton, gebundenes Buch, neu.
Lieferung aus: Deutschland, zzgl. Versandkosten, published soon.
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Easy On, Easy Off: The Urban Pathology of America´s Small Towns
EN HC NWISBN: 9780813938851 bzw. 0813938856, in Englisch, UNIV OF VIRGINIA PR, gebundenes Buch, neu.
Lieferung aus: Deutschland, zzgl. Versandkosten.
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Easy On, Easy Off: The Urban Pathology of America's Small Towns
EN HC NWISBN: 9780813938851 bzw. 0813938856, in Englisch, University of Virginia Press, gebundenes Buch, neu.
Lieferung aus: Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika, Lagernd.
Easy-On-Easy-Off~~Jack-Williams, Easy On, Easy Off: The Urban Pathology of America's Small Towns, Hardcover.
Easy-On-Easy-Off~~Jack-Williams, Easy On, Easy Off: The Urban Pathology of America's Small Towns, Hardcover.
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