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Segregation : a global history of divided cities / Carl H. Nightingale.
LIBRA HD7288.75 .N54 2012
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Lippincott Library HD7288.75 .N54 2012
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Nightingale, Carl Husemoller.
- Series:
- Historical studies of urban America
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Discrimination in housing--History.
- Discrimination in housing.
- Segregation--History.
- Segregation.
- Urban policy--History.
- Urban policy.
- Minorities--Housing--History.
- Minorities.
- Discrimination in housing--United States.
- Minorities--Housing.
- History.
- United States.
- Segregation--United States.
- Urban policy--United States.
- Minorities--Housing--United States.
- Physical Description:
- xviii, 517 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2012.
- Contents:
- Ancestries
- Seventy centuries of city-splitting
- Before race mattered
- The long shadow of the Ziggurat
- Segregating strangers
- Scapegoat ghettos
- Quarters for classes, crafts, clans, castes, and the sexes
- Ancient and medieval legacies
- Color and race come to the city
- White town/black town
- Governor Pitt's Madras
- The rise and fall of American (and South African) segregation in colonial times
- Eastward connections
- The cross-colonial color connection
- Color before race
- Race and the London-Calcutta connection
- The modern way to split a city
- How London conquered and divided Calcutta
- Race and the imperial city
- The London-Calcutta sanitation connection
- The West End's White Town connection
- London's Calcutta problem
- Surges of segregation in the colonies
- The stations Raj
- Paradoxes of detachment and dependence
- Beyond Calcutta
- Stations of the empire
- "Bring your cities and stations within the pale of civilization"
- Stations for sale?
- Beyond India
- Segregating the Pacific
- Incomings and outgoings
- Segregating China's gateways
- Tides in the Pacific
- Segregating all oceans
- Segregation mania
- A call to all continents
- The germ theory of segregation
- Segregation sails East with the plague
- Hunting rats, fleas, and mosquitoes in Africa
- The high tide of segregation mania
- The long end of the craze
- Legacies of the mania
- The outer limits of colonial urbanism
- Imperial monuments, imperial tombstones
- French connections
- A French Calcutta?
- Planet Haussmann
- Splitting cities, beaux-arts style
- Sunset at New Delhi
- A bitter epitaph
- The archsegregationists
- The multifarious segregation of Johannesburg
- Archsegregationism and the wider world
- Squaring race and civilization
- A keystone of global anglo-saxondom
- The birth of "separate development"
- From labor control to "influx control"
- Grandparents of the group areas
- The furies fly in the settlers' city
- Arrogance and its agonies
- The intimacies of race war
- They will buy us out of the country
- Pandora's segregationism
- The birth pangs of nation-state segregation
- Camouflaging the color line in Chicago
- A subtler sort of segregation?
- Segregating the United States
- Jim-crowing the neighborhoods
- Segregation by profiteer, protective association, and pogrom
- A time for camouflage
- The "iron ring"?
- Segregation at the extremes
- Split cities and the global cataclysm
- Hitler's "death boxes"
- A new deal for America's color lines
- The sinister synthesis of apartheid
- Fragmented legacies
- Outflanking a global revolution
- Age of liberation, age of apocalypse
- Have ghettos gone global?
- Postcolonial and neocolonial city-splitting
- A new century of settler segregation?
- Epilogue: people, the planet, and segregated cities.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780226580746
- 0226580741
- OCLC:
- 756577552
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