Infinite Cities. In the past decade, Rebecca Solnit—aided by local writers, artists, historians,. Nonstop Metropolis. Nonstop Metropolis, the culminating volume in a trilogy of atlases, conveys innumerable unbound experiences of New York City through twenty-six imaginative maps and informative essays.
Bringing together the insights of dozens of experts—from linguists to music historians, ethnographers, urbanists, and environmental journalists—amplified by cartographers, artists, and photographers, it explores all. New Orleans is the most elusive of American cities. The product of the centuries-long struggle among three mighty empires--France, Spain, and England--and among their respective American colonies and enslaved African peoples, it has always seemed like a foreign port to most Americans, baffled as they are by its complex cultural inheritance.
The World That Made New Orleans offers a new perspective on this insufficiently understood city by telling the remarkable story of New Orleans's first century--a tale of imperial war, religious conflict, the search for treasure, the spread of slavery, the Cuban connection, the cruel aristocracy of sugar, and the very different revolutions that created the United States and Haiti.
It demonstrates that New Orleans already had its own distinct personality at the time of Louisiana's statehood in Just as that book has become a standard resource on Cuba, so too will The World That Made New Orleans long remain essential for understanding the beautiful and tragic story of this most American of cities. Author : Peter M. A physicist describes how life emerges from the random motion of atoms through sophisticated cellular machinery and describes the long quest to determine the true nature of life from ancient Greece to the study of modern nanotechnology.
A century later—in —and a hundred and fifty miles away, another war began when the U. It was called a nuclear testing program, but functioned as a war against the land and people of the Great Basin.
In this foundational book of landscape theory and environmental thinking, Rebecca Solnit explores our national Eden and Armageddon and offers a pathbreaking history of the west, focusing on the relationship between culture and its implementation as politics.
In a new preface, she considers the continuities and changes of these invisible wars in the context of our current climate change crisis, and reveals how the long arm of these histories continue to inspire her writing and hope.
When the people of Flint, Michigan, turned on their faucets in April , the water pouring out was poisoned with lead and other toxins.
Complaints about the foul-smelling water were dismissed: the residents of Flint, mostly poor and African American, were not seen as credible, even in matters of their own lives. It took eighteen months of activism by city residents and a band of dogged outsiders to force the state to admit that the water was poisonous. The long battle for accountability and a humane response to this man-made disaster has only just begun. It is a chronicle of one town, but could also be about any American city, all made precarious by the neglect of infrastructure and the erosion of democratic decision making.
Places like Flint are set up to fail—and for the people who live and work in them, the consequences can be fatal. Books Unfathomable City. Infinite City Rebecca Solnit. The Accidental City Lawrence N. The Faraway Nearby Rebecca Solnit. Lords of Misrule James Gill. Gumbo Tales Sara Roahen. Time and Place in New Orleans Anonim. River of Shadows Rebecca Solnit. City of Refuge Tom Piazza. Symphony for the City of the Dead M.
Bienville's Dilemma Richard Campanella. It owns sug many, of seaports in the Mediterranean, and of seaports in the tropics.
But the city has never lost its crucial identity as a great port as a place whose native culture is based in absorbing the cultures of foreign lands and making them its own; and as an Amer ican city whose unique identity has been shaped, even before Jelly Roll that bind New Orleans to the lands and peoples to its south have been thickened by many means. First brought to the New World by a caravel of Spanish friars and conquistadors that though it remained little known to most North Americans.
That changed after intrigued fairgoers for a dime. Bananas were a hit. Initially, the U. Business expanded as advances in refrigerated shipping allowed the bananas, picked green, to reach northern greengrocers before the fruit grew overripe. After a freezing winter destroyed Loui the Honduras shore, where they bought wholesale coconuts and grapefruit from local growers.
Soon enough, the brothers started buying bananas, too and then, they bought up thousands of hectares to begin overseeing production themselves. He entered the banana trade in Mobile, out for Central America himself and bought a vast swath of bottomland along the Cuyamel River in Honduras. A grateful Bonilla gifted his patron with a new banana concession, consisting of thousands more Honduran hectares perfect for growing big gros michel bananas.
The Vaccaro brothers, signaling their own dreams of world domination, yellow fruit whose grip on the culture Cohn. England importers who had started it all had continued to be major players in centered in Jamaica but now ranging through Panama, Colombia, and the entire Caribbean Basin still dominated the banana market in the Northeast during the When Zemurray decided to take early retirement at the end of the decade, it later, and connived to buy a controlling stake in the newly enlarged United Fruit.
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