Anthony D King: 6 books

Book cover of Postmodernism and China
by Wang Ning, Anthony D. King, Abidin Kusno
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2000

Few countries have been so transformed in recent decades as China. With a dynamically growing economy and a rapidly changing social structure, China challenges the West to understand the nature of its modernization. Using postmodernism as both a global frame of periodization and a way to break free...
Book cover of Writing the Global City

Writing the Global City

Globalisation, Postcolonialism and the Urban

by Anthony D King
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2016

Over the last three decades, our understanding of the city worldwide has been revolutionized by three innovative theoretical concepts – globalisation, postcolonialism and a radically contested notion of modernity. The idea and even the reality of the city has been extended out of the state and nation...
Book cover of Colonial Urban Development

Colonial Urban Development

Culture, Social Power and Environment

by Anthony D. King
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012

The Study focuses on the social and, more especially, the cultural processes governing colonial urban development and develops a theory and methodology to do this. The author demonstrates how the physical and spatial arrangements characterizing urban development are unique products of a particular...
Book cover of Urbanism, Colonialism, and the World-Economy
by Anthony D King
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2015

Recent years have witnessed a surge in public awareness concerning the impact of world economic forces on cities. In this challenging book, the author argues that though the consciousness is new the phenomena themselves are not. For the past two centuries at least, world economic, political and cultural...
Book cover of Global Cities
by Anthony D King
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2015

Since the late 1970s the role of key world cities such as Los Angeles, New York and London as centres of global control and co-ordination has come under increasing scrutiny. This book provides an overview and critique of work on the global context of metropolitan growth, world city formation and the...
Book cover of Among Animals 2: The Lives of Animals and Humans in Contemporary Short Fiction
by John Yunker, Sascha Morrell, JoeAnn Hart
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2016

A second collection of critically acclaimed stories that affirm the bond among humans and animals The relationships among human and non-human animals have captivated writers since the beginning of time—and the ways in which these relationships have evolved (and sometimes have not) continue...
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