Much rare material is incorporated in this unique account of urbanization in a developing country that was ravaged by war for twenty years. With due emphasis on the experience of Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon), the authors present an account of what happened to the towns and cities of Vietnam between the establishment of Ho Chi Minh's socialist state in 1954 and the mid 1980s. The story is introduced through a general theoretical and empirical account of urbanization in socialist Third World countries. The book stresses the importance of the turmoil created by warfare in directing urbanization, but it also refers to the more conventially studied determinants of the process such as the institution of a planned economy.As one of the few books highlighting the impact of warfare on urban settlements, The Price of War will interest all those interested in urbanization, development and South-East Asia.This book was first published in 1986.

Price of War: Urbanization in Vietnam 1954-1985

Politics & Social Sciences

Thrift, Nigel

Forbes, Dean

Social Sciences

Unwin Hyman

Shaping the Day: A History of Timekeeping in England and Wales 1300-1800

Timekeeping is an essential activity in the modern world, and we take it for granted that our lives our shaped by the hours of the day. Yet what seems so ordinary today is actually the extraordinary outcome of centuries of technical innovation and circulation of ideas about time. Shaping the Day is a pathbreaking study of the practice of timekeeping in England and Wales between 1300 and 1800. Drawing on many unique historical sources, ranging from personal diaries to housekeeping manuals, Paul Glennie and Nigel Thrift illustrate how a particular kind of common sense about time came into being, and how it developed during this period. Many remarkable figures make their appearance, ranging from the well-known, such as Edmund Halley, Samuel Pepys, and John Harrison, who solved the problem of longitude, to less familiar characters, including sailors, gamblers, and burglars. Overturning many common perceptions of the past-for example, that clock time and the industrial revolution were intimately related-this unique historical study will engage all readers interested in how "telling the time" has come to dominate our way of life.

History

Glennie, Paul

Europe

Oxford University Press

Money/Space (International Library of Sociology)

Bringing together in one volume the most important writings of Andrew Leyshon and Nigel Thrift on money and finance, including the unpublished classic "Sexy-Greedy" this collection examines the economic, social and cultural manifestations that go to make up the multiple vision of money. Money, it seems is the great God of our age. It is also an economy, a sociology, an anthropolgy and a geography. Linking money with the emergent patterns of global spatial order. Money/Space analyses the restructuring of financial markets in a range of spatial scales; global, national and local.

Money/Space: Geographies of Monetary Transformation (International Library of Sociology)

Business & Money

Leyshon, Andrew

Economics

Routledge

Timespace: Geographies of Temporality (Critical Geographies)

Timespace argues that the old dimensions of time and space do not exist singly, but only as a hybrid process term. the contributors introduce the concepts of time and space together, across a range of disciplines.

May, Jon

Non-Representational Theory: Space, Politics, Affect (International Library of Sociology)

This astonishing book presents a distinctive approach to the politics of everyday life. Ranging across a variety of spaces in which politics and the political unfold, it questions what is meant by perception, representation and practice, with the aim of valuing the fugitive practices that exist on the margins of the known. It revolves around three key functions. It: <ul>
<li>introduces the rather dispersed discussion of non-representational theory to a wider audience</li> <li>provides the basis for an experimental rather than a representational approach to the social sciences and humanities</li> <li>begins the task of constructing a different kind of political genre. </li>
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A groundbreaking and comprehensive introduction to this key topic, Thrift’s outstanding work brings together further writings from a body of work that has come to be known as non-representational theory. This noteworthy book makes a significant contribution to the literature in this area and is essential reading for researchers and postgraduates in the fields of social theory, sociology, geography, anthropology and cultural studies.

The Price of War

Much rare material is incorporated in this unique account of urbanization in a developing country that was ravaged by war for twenty years. With due emphasis on the experience of Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon), the authors present an account of what happened to the towns and cities of Vietnam between the establishment of Ho Chi Minh's socialist state in 1954 and the mid 1980s. The story is introduced through a general theoretical and empirical account of urbanization in socialist Third World countries. The book stresses the importance of the turmoil created by warfare in directing urbanization, but it also refers to the more conventially studied determinants of the process such as the institution of a planned economy. As one of the few books highlighting the impact of warfare on urban settlements, The Price of War will interest all those interested in urbanization, development and South-East Asia. This book was first published in 1986.      

The Price of War: Urbanization in Vietnam, 1954-1985

The Socialist Third World: Urban development and territorial planning

The socialist Third World countries have grown from a handful in the 1950s to over thirty in the 1980s, yet they have received little attention in the development literature. The essays in this volume examine the territorial planning experience of several key socialist countries: Algeria, Cuba, Guyana, Nicaragua, Vietnam, PDR Yemen, Zimbabwe. Territorial considerations are now of great importance in the economic and social planning of the characteristically centrally planned countries under scrutiny. The pressure for industrialization, the equitable distribution of growth and benefits, and national defence produce economic problems that in some cases are staved off by recourse to international borrowing. Contradictory stresses such as these are resolved in different ways by different countries, and these essays describe the various approaches and policies employed in each of the nations examined.

The Socialist Third World: Urban Development and Territorial Planning

Blackwell Pub.

Cities: Reimagining the Urban

This book develops a fresh and challenging perspective on the city. Drawing on a wide and diverse range of material and texts, it argues that too much contemporary urban theory is based on nostalgia for a humane, face-to-face and bounded city. Amin and Thrift maintain that the traditional divide between the city and the rest of the world has been perforated through urban encroachment, the thickening of the links between the two, and urbanization as a way of life. 
They outline an innovative sociology of the city that scatters urban life along a series of sites and circulations, reinstating previously suppressed areas of contemporary urban life: from the presence of non-human activity to the centrality of distant connections. The implications of this viewpoint are traced through a series of chapters on power, economy and democracy. This concise and accessible book will be of interest to students and scholars in sociology, geography, urban studies, cultural studies and politics. .

Amin, Ash

Polity

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Price of War: Urbanization in Vietnam 1954-1985

Shaping the Day: A History of Timekeeping in England and Wales 1300-1800

Shaping the Day: A History of Timekeeping in England and Wales 1300-1800

Money/Space: Geographies of Monetary Transformation (International Library of Sociology)

Timespace: Geographies of Temporality (Critical Geographies)

Non-Representational Theory: Space, Politics, Affect (International Library of Sociology)

Non-Representational Theory: Space, Politics, Affect (International Library of Sociology)

The Price of War: Urbanization in Vietnam, 1954-1985

The Socialist Third World: Urban Development and Territorial Planning

Cities: Reimagining the Urban