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"This work is the first English translation of the complete text of the Title of Totonicapán, one of the most important documents composed by the K'iche' Maya in the highlands of Guatemala in 1554. This volume contains a new translation from the original text, based on a manuscript copy rediscovered by Robert Carmack in 1973."

Here is an extensive and highly original inquiry into the origins, dynamics, and internal order of the modern metropolis. Allen J. Scott demonstrates how the metropolis emerges out of the basic mechanisms of production and work in contemporary society, and how those mechanisms guide general patterns of urban development. His work will be stimulating to social scientists and to planners and policy makers as well. This title is part of

"Kazakh Muslims in the Red Army is the first study of the WWII experience of Soviet Kazakhs. Based on indigenous-language sources, it focuses on the wartime experiences of Kazakh conscripts and the home front as expressed in correspondence. The study emphasizes how Kazakh social structure, religion, and patriotism were expressed and mobilized during the war years. By focusing on indigenous forms of private correspondence, the book presents an alternative to previous studies focusing on narratives and documentation derived from the Soviet state. It offers an entirely new basis for examining the wartime experiences of Soviet citizens and Soviet Muslims"--

"No one succeeds alone, and Ulysses S. Grant was no exception. From the earliest days of the Civil War to the heights of Grant's power in the White House, John A. Rawlins was ever at Grant's side. Yet Rawlins's role in Grant's career is often overlooked, and he barely received mention in Grant's own two-volume Memoirs. General John A. Rawlins: No Ordinary Man by Allen J. Ottens is the first major biography of Rawlins in over a century and traces his rise to assistant adjutant general and ultimately Grant's secretary of war. Ottens presents the portrait of a man who teamed with Grant, who submerged his needs and ambition in the service of Grant, and who at times served as the doubter who questioned whether Grant possessed the background to tackle the great responsibilities of the job. Rawlins played a pivotal role in Grant's relatively small staff, acting as administrator, counselor, and defender of Grant's burgeoning popularity. Rawlins qualifies as a true patriot, a man devoted to the Union and devoted to Grant. His is the story of a man who persevered in wartime and during the tumultuous years of Reconstruction and who, despite a ravaging disease that would cut short his blossoming career, grew to become a proponent of the personal and citizenship rights of those formerly enslaved. General John A. Rawlins will prove to be a fascinating and essential read for all who have an interest in leadership, the Civil War, or Ulysses S. Grant"--

"The book 'Gulag Miracles: Sufis and Stalinist Repression in Kazakhstan', represents the first detailed study of Muslim religious responses to totalitarian repression during the first half of the 20th century, and is therefore of interest to specialists in Islamic Studies, Religious Studies, Russian and Soviet History, Central Asian and Turkic Studies, and Sufi Studies. Based on Kazakh-language hagiographies produced by Sufi communities, the monograph examines how these communities interpreted and explained the experience of repression (anti-religious policies targeting Sufis, collectivization, famine, and mass arrests), and how these communities adjusted to Soviet life after the Second World War. At the center of the study are a series of miracle stories, set in the Gulag, recounting the experiences of saints and other prominent members of these communities with Stalinist repression. These stories, rich in symbolic meaning, circulated among these communities in the Soviet era, and contain political critiques of the Stalin era, based on Islamic and Sufi ethics. These hagiographies, published in the late 20th and early 21st centuries, clearly reveal the continuity of Sufi concepts in Kazakh communities from the medieval period, through to independence, bringing into question the degree to which the Soviet era represented a rupture in the religious lives of Muslim communities. The book also considers the role of Sufi communities in Kazakh kinship structures, and their manifestation during the Soviet era. In this context, it reevaluates much that has been written about "Soviet Islam", questioning the justification for separating the Soviet Union and its Muslim communities from the rest of the 'Muslim World'. The hagiographies demonstrate that while Sufi communities underwent a degree of Sovietization, as reflected in their stories, this Sovietization was accomplished, ironically, by a parallel 'Islamization' of various aspects of the Soviet experience."--

Preface -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Chapter 1: City and Society -- Prologue -- Waves of Capitalist Urbanization -- The First Wave -- The Second Wave -- The Third Wave -- Specificities and Generalities of Urbanization -- Notes -- Chapter 2: In Search of the City -- What Is the City? -- Definitional Dilemmas -- Theoretical Entanglements -- Toward a Reconsideration -- The Origins of Urbanization -- The Earliest Cities -- The Division of Labor and the Growth of Cities -- Analytical Reprise -- The Urban Land Nexus -- The Spatial Organization of the City -- Rent and Land Use -- The Public City -- Externalities, the Commons and Collective Consumption -- Institutions of Governance -- The City in Focus -- Notes -- Chapter 3: Industrialization and Urbanization in Early Capitalism -- Preliminary Observations -- Industrialization and Urbanization -- The Driving Force of Capitalism -- Industrial Organization and Location -- Urban Outcomes -- Industrial Agglomerations in the Nineteenth Century -- The Location of Cities -- Intraurban Patterns -- Urban Social Conditions and the Imperative of Planning -- Prophets of Doom and Redemption -- A Synoptic View -- Notes -- Chapter 4: Triumph and Tribulations of the Mass-­Production Metropolis -- Emergence of Mass Production and the Twentieth-­Century Metropolis -- The Mass-Production System -- Mass Production and Urbanization -- Early Theories of Metropolis -- The Long Post-War Boom -- The Core Countries -- The World Periphery -- Crisis and Readjustment -- The Climacteric -- Turning Points: Theoretical and Substantive -- Notes -- Chapter 5: Cities in a Globalizing World -- Internal and External Relations of the City -- The Urban Continuum -- The Geography of Urban Growth and Development -- The Global Multiplex -- Point Counterpoint -- Notes -- Chapter 6: The Third Wave

The Solway Country-the lands surrounding the inner Solway Firth-constitutes one of the many small regional worlds of the British Isles that are remarkable for the ways in which their landscapes evoke a powerful sense of territorial identity rooted not only in their physical appeal, but also in the richness and distinctiveness of their human history and geography. The Solway Country is an archetypical but hitherto little known exemplar of places like these. This book captures the spirit and s

"Food in the Middle Ages usually evokes images of feasting, speeches, and special occasions, even though most evidence of food culture consists of fragments of ordinary things such as knives, cooking pots, and grinding stones, which are rarely mentioned by contemporary writers. This book puts daily life and its objects at the centre of the food world. It brings together archaeological and textual evidence to show how words and implements associated with food contributed to social identity at all levels of Anglo-Saxon society. It also looks at the networks which connected fields to kitchens and linked rural centres to trading sites. Fasting, redesigned field systems, and the place of fish in the diet are examined in a wide-ranging, interdisciplinary inquiry into the power of food to reveal social complexity." --Back cover

This innovative volume offers an in-depth analysis of the many ways in which new forms of capitalism in the 21st century are affecting and altering the processes of urbanization. Beginning with the recent history of capitalism and urbanization and moving into a thorough and complex discussion of the modern city, this book outlines the dynamics of what the author calls the third wave of urbanization, characterized by global capitalism's increasing turn to forms of production revolving around technology-intensive artifacts, financial services, and creative commodities such as film, music, and fa

Preliminary Material -- Introduction -- Sources -- The Religious and Social Foundations of Bukharan Prestige -- "Bulghar" Institutions in Bukhara -- The Student Experience I -- The Student Experience II -- The Decline of Bukharan Prestige in Russia -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index.

Focusing on the theme of the mutually constitutive relations between geographic space and the economic order, Allen J. Scott discusses the problems of the location of economic activities, learning and innovation in industrial systems, and economic development. These problems are dealt with in both theoretical and empirical terms.