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“robert m schwartz”

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  • Policing the Poor in Eighteenth-Century France

    by Robert M. Schwartz ...
    Robert Schwartz examines the French government’s attempts to suppress mendicity from the reign of Louis XIV to the Revolution. His study provides a rich account of the evolution of poverty, the varied and shifting attitudes toward the delinquent poor, and the government’s efforts to control mendicity by strengthening the state’s repressive machinery during the eighteenth century. As Schwartz ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • Holy Eating

    The Spiritual Secret to Eternal Weight Loss

    by Robert M. Schwartz Ph.D. ...
    ?Imagine achieving your ideal weight and not regaining! ?Imagine growing spiritually while transforming your body! ?Imagine connecting with God each time you eat! ?Imagine Holy Eating making this process joyful! ????????????? Imagine achieving your optimal weight and not regaining. Imagine growing spiritually while transforming your body. Imagine connecting with God each time you eat. In Holy ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Toward Spatial Humanities

    Historical GIS and Spatial History

    by Les Roberts, Thomas Thevenin, Julia Hallam, Andrew Beveridge, Ruth Mostern, Humphrey Southall, Niall A. Cunningham, Robert M. Schwartz, Elijah Meeks ...
    The application of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) to issues in history is among the most exciting developments in both digital and spatial humanities. Describing a wide variety of applications, the essays in this volume highlight the methodological and substantive implications of a spatial approach to history. They illustrate how the use of GIS is changing our understanding of the ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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  • The European Dimension of British Planning

    by Mark Tewdwr-Jones, Richard H. Williams ...
    The UK government of Tony Blair is committed to fostering a European dimension of planning practice. Significant developments in relation to planning within Europe are occurring. The creation of the European Spatial Development Perspective, the reform of the Structural Funds, and the implementation of programmes to foster trans-national co-operation between governments, will all impact on UK ... Read more

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  • Displacing Blackness

    Planning, Power, and Race in Twentieth-Century Halifax

    by Ted Rutland ...
    Modern urban planning has long promised to improve the quality of human life. But how is human life defined? Displacing Blackness develops a unique critique of urban planning by focusing, not on its subservience to economic or political elites, but on its efforts to improve people’s lives.While focused on twentieth-century Halifax, Displacing Blackness develops broad insights about the ... Read more

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  • The Great Nation: France from Louis XV to Napoleon

    The New Penguin History of France

    by Colin Jones ...
    There can be few more mesmerising historical narratives than the story of how the dazzlingly confident and secure monarchy Louis XIV, 'the Sun King', left to his successors in 1715 became the discredited, debt-ridden failure toppled by Revolution in1789. The further story of the bloody unravelling of the Revolution until its seizure by Napoleon is equally astounding.Colin Jones' brilliant new book ... Read more

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  • Copyright and Piracy

    An Interdisciplinary Critique

    Edited by Lionel Bently, Jennifer Davis, Jane C. Ginsburg ...
    Series Book 13 - Cambridge Intellectual Property and Information Law
    An understanding of the changing nature of the law and practice of copyright infringement is a task too big for lawyers alone; it requires additional inputs from economists, historians, technologists, sociologists, cultural theorists and criminologists. Where is the boundary to be drawn between illegal imitation and legal inspiration? Would the answer be different for creators, artists and experts ... Read more

    $146.79 USD

  • The Fall of Robespierre

    24 Hours in Revolutionary Paris

    by Colin Jones ...
    The day of 9 Thermidor (27 July 1794) is universally acknowledged as a major turning-point in the history of the French Revolution. At 12.00 midnight, Maximilien Robespierre, the most prominent member of the Committee of Public Safety which had for more than a year directed the Reign of Terror, was planning to destroy one of the most dangerous plots that the Revolution had faced. By 12.00 midnight ... Read more

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  • Heritage Studies

    Methods and Approaches

    Edited by Marie Louise Stig Sørensen, John Carman ...
    This is the first volume specifically dedicated to the consolidation and clarification of Heritage Studies as a distinct field with its own means of investigation. It presents the range of methods that can be used and illustrates their application through case studies from different parts of the world, including the UK and USA. The challenge that the collection makes explicit is that Heritage ... Read more

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  • Children of the Revolution

    The French, 1799-1914

    by Robert Gildea ...
    Nineteenth-century France was one of the world's great cultural beacons, renowned for its dazzling literature, philosophy, art, poetry and technology. Yet this was also a tumultuous century of political anarchy and bloodshed, where each generation of the French Revolution's 'children' would experience their own wars, revolutions and terrors.From soldiers to priests, from peasants to Communards, ... Read more

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  • Place Identity, Participation and Planning

    Edited by Cliff Hague, Paul Jenkins ...
    Series series RTPI Library Series
    The central concern of this book is place identity, and its representation and manipulation through planning. Place identity is of growing international concern, both in planning practice and in academic work. The issue is important to practitioners because of the impact of globalisation on notions of place. This book includes comparisons between Norway, the Netherlands, Sweden and Scotland, ... Read more

    $84.99 USD