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All Roads Lead to the American City
Peter . Ed(S): Swirski
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Description for All Roads Lead to the American City
Hardback. Provides an original view of the urban culture in America seen through its ties with the cities and roads. Taking the role of the roads that crisscross and connect the cities as their shared point of reference, this book explores ways to understand the people who live, commute, work, create, govern, commit crime and conduct business in them. Editor(s): Swirski, Peter. Num Pages: 162 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFC; JFSG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 231 x 155. Weight in Grams: 454.
All Roads Lead to the American City provides an original view of the urban culture in America seen through its irrevocable ties with the cities and roads. Examining the history, cinema, literature, cultural myths and social geography of the United States, the book puts some of the greatest as well as the "baddest" American cities under the microscope.
All Roads Lead to the American City provides an original view of the urban culture in America seen through its irrevocable ties with the cities and roads. Examining the history, cinema, literature, cultural myths and social geography of the United States, the book puts some of the greatest as well as the "baddest" American cities under the microscope.
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Hong Kong University Press Hong Kong
Number of pages
162
Condition
New
Number of Pages
162
Place of Publication
Hong Kong, Hong Kong
ISBN
9789622098626
SKU
V9789622098626
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99-15
About Peter . Ed(S): Swirski
Peter Swirski is Associate Professor of American Literature and Director of American Studies at the University of Hong Kong.
Reviews for All Roads Lead to the American City
Without getting caught up in a limited problematic or a narrow theoretical jargon, All Roads Lead to the American City taps the insights of many fields in order to show how intimately bound up the reality and the image of the road and the city are with the American sense of the nation. The authors move smoothly from text to history to synthesis, and back again. Taken as a whole, it makes a contribution to American Studies.
David Grant, Grant MacEwan College
David Grant, Grant MacEwan College