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  1. The demographic imagination and the nineteenth-century city
    Paris, London, New York
    Erschienen: 2015
    Verlag:  Cambridge University Press, Cambridge

    "In this provocative book, Nicholas Daly, tracks the cultural effects of the population explosion of the nineteenth century, the 'demographic transition' to the modern world"-- "In this provocative book, Nicholas Daly tracks the cultural effects of... mehr

    Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Haus Potsdamer Straße
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    Niedersächsische Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Göttingen
    2015 A 11264
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    Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Hamburg Carl von Ossietzky
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    Universitätsbibliothek Heidelberg
    2015 A 5744
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    Universitätsbibliothek Mannheim
    2016 A 2991
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    Brechtbau-Bibliothek
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    Klassik Stiftung Weimar / Herzogin Anna Amalia Bibliothek
    ND 8700 D153
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    "In this provocative book, Nicholas Daly, tracks the cultural effects of the population explosion of the nineteenth century, the 'demographic transition' to the modern world"-- "In this provocative book, Nicholas Daly tracks the cultural effects of the population explosion of the nineteenth century, the 'demographic transition' to the modern world. As the crowded cities of Paris, London and New York went through similar transformations, a set of shared narratives and images of urban life circulated among them, including fantasies of urban catastrophe, crime dramas, and tales of haunted public transport, refracting the hell that is other people. In the visual arts, sentimental genre pictures appeared that condensed the urban masses into a handful of vulnerable figures: newsboys and flower-girls. At the end of the century, proto-ecological stories emerge about the sprawling city as itself a destroyer. This lively study excavates some of the origins of our own international popular culture, from noir visions of the city as a locus of crime, to utopian images of energy and community"--

     

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    Quelle: Herzogin Anna Amalia Bibliothek
    Sprache: Englisch
    Medientyp: Buch (Monographie)
    Format: Druck
    ISBN: 9781107095595
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    9781107095595
    RVK Klassifikation: HL 1101
    Auflage/Ausgabe: 1. publ.
    Schriftenreihe: Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture ; 97
    Schlagworte: Demographic transition; Demographic transition; Demographic transition; Overpopulation; Cities and towns
    Umfang: IX, 272 S., Ill., 24 cm
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    Includes bibliographical references p. 245 - 267 and index p. 268 - 272

    Machine generated contents note: Introduction; 1. Under the volcano: mass destruction; 2. The streets of wherever: French melodrama and Anglophone localization; 3. The ghost comes to town: the haunted city; 4. The frenzy of the legible in the age of crowds; 5. Fur and feathers: animals and the city in an Anthropocene era; Conclusion.

  2. One with Nineveh
    politics, consumption, and the human future
    Erschienen: c2004
    Verlag:  Island Press, Washington

    Explores how overpopulation, over consumption, and political and economic inequity are increasingly determining today's politics and shaping humankind's future, and demonstrates ways these often-neglected factors influence each other mehr

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    Explores how overpopulation, over consumption, and political and economic inequity are increasingly determining today's politics and shaping humankind's future, and demonstrates ways these often-neglected factors influence each other

     

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    Quelle: Verbundkataloge
    Beteiligt: Ehrlich, Anne H.
    Sprache: Englisch
    Medientyp: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 1417539356; 1610910524; 9781417539352; 9781610910521
    Schlagworte: Sustainable development; Consumption (Economics); Overpopulation; Social justice
    Umfang: Online-Ressource (447 p)
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    Includes bibliographical references (p. 391-427) and index

    Human predicamentThe costs of success -- The tide of population -- The consumption factor -- Technology matters -- Billions, birthrates, and policies -- Consuming less -- A culture out of step -- Human behavior at the millennium -- Sustainable governance in America -- Healing a world of wounds.