... the long nineteenth century to a state best described as permanent transit after 1918. Berlin only emerged as an important destination for Jewish migrants from farther east when immigration restrictions put New York and other American cities out of reach. The article focuses on a number of literary...

...Andrew Herscher Abstract Emerging in British agricultural discourse in the seventeenth century, the term blight moved from agriculture to culture, and so from countryside to city, in the context of the industrializing American city of the early twentieth century. This city housed increasingly large...

.... American In paraphrasing or citing CNN, these news- identify defamatory material” against the Triple The papers engaged in a transnational story line, Border. At the same time, Foz do Iguaçu city...

... exuded a heterogeneous, cosmopolitan character that blurred public borders in terms of class hierarchies and gendered, linguistic, and ethnic boundaries, and threatened an emerging Turkish cultural order. Both the narratives of American jazz exceptionalism and a predominant 1930s-centric Turkish...

... Book Reviews 268 of urban life (Middle Eastern and Latin American nomic disparity also shapes the potential of the so- cities), institutional frameworks and reforms (Latin cial capital of cities, a necessary ingredient in local American...

... of the dead”) figures in ancient cities, the rise of modern cemeteries—as a space dedicated to the dead, and physically separated from the space inhabited by the living—is a process typically attributed to nineteenth-century western European and American cities. However, the systematic procedures...

... Session Held at Geneva from 29 October to 12 November 1934 .” Geneva : The League of Nations , 1922–40 . McShane Clay . Down the Asphalt Path: The Automobile and the American City . New York : Columbia University Press , 1994 . Pirie Gordon . “ Non-urban Motoring in Colonial...

... colonies, a development that happened in tandem with the explosive growth and development of American cities at the turn of the century. These new American “possessions”—namely, the Philippines, Cuba, Guam, and Puerto Rico—were, on account of their remoteness and noncontiguousness with the United...

... that sought to capture urban crisis in biological and medical terms. That this was not only happening in Egypt becomes immediately clear when we recall the title of Jane Jacobs's 1961 The Death and Life of the Great American Cities —the most familiar critique of American orthodox modernist urban planning...

... frequency than among the general room and board for a month, moved her to American population where conjugal violence another city and county -- to a larger involves one out of every sixteen couples. shelter where she met another South Asian, I can only hope to underline sone...

... for Canadian citi- status as part of the “axis of evil” coalesced, I zens traveling to the United States, acted as a re- found myself among the ranks of individuals minder that in the eyes of the American author- of Middle Eastern ancestry who were routinely ities I was not like other Canadian citizens...

... as a Way of Life,” American Journal of Sociology 44 (1938):    The City: Urban Communities and Their Problems (Dubuque, IA:  1 – 24; Stanley Milgram, “The Experience of Living in Cities,” Sci...

... of scholars discussed the difficulty of accessing “the field” because of the ongoing “security issues” in Iraq. The conversation went on for a while as these scholars with faculty positions attending a costly conference in a big American city continued to mention Iraq as an object. At no point during...

... that go hand in hand with wars, refugee influx, and periods of urban growth and economic boom. 1. During this time, Latin American cities were a leading center for debate on housing policy, illegality, community development, and self-help. For example, architects such as John Turner have written...

..., Ar- delphia: Temple University Press, 2007). Another re- Huub de Jonge, John Tofik Karam, Sumit K. Mandal, abic Speaking Communities in American Cities (New cent book that highlights the migration process is Leif Manger, Paulo G. Pinto, Maria Six-­Hohenbalken, York: Center for Migration Studies...

... in the city of Jos were not exceptional in their hundred demonstrators gathered to protest the circumstances or scope, yet their timing has particu- American action in Afghanistan, and evolved into lar relevance...

... . “ Nazi Spatial Theory: The Dark Geographies of Carl Schmitt and Walter Christaller .” Annals of the Association of American Geographers 103 , no. 3 ( 2013 ): 669 – 87 . Bonnenfant Paul . “ L'Evolution de la vie bédouine en Arabie centrale. Notes sociologiques .” Revue de l'Occident...

...- Diasporas Eastern Americans.”14 Even quantitative data cated by national boundaries as they are today, present issues of accuracy and completeness. the immigrants did identify cities such as Bei- Arab In examining Mexican census data, there are rut and Tripoli as their place of origin...

... on to compete in a world beauty contest in an camera while holding the string of pearls she was American city. The author rhetorically asks if Tur- wearing in each hand and in her teeth—a pose some- key’s women are less beautiful than those of other how reminiscent of silent film heroes with roses in nations...

... and hattan: the Irish American St. Patrick’s Day Pa- reevaluation of its past and its culture.” 7 She ar- rade (the oldest ethnic parade in the city, dating gues that in combining “mass recreation with back to 1762) and the Puerto Rican Day Parade...