Tag: Towns

April 26, 2024

Skidoo A Journey through the Ghost Towns of the American West

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Free Download Simon Pare, "Skidoo: A Journey through the Ghost Towns of the American West"
English | 2014 | ISBN: 1907973958 | EPUB | pages: 84 | 0.7 mb
Decades after westward expansion swept over it, settled it, and domesticated it, the Wild West remains a potent source of American myth and mystery. But the actual history, and the traces of it that remain, are at least as interesting as the fiction, and in Skidoo, writer and novelist Alex Capus takes us on a fascinating tour of the skeleton of the American West―the ghost towns and collapsing mines that lie far from interstates and airports, lost in history.

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April 26, 2024

Pre-modern Towns at the Times of Catastrophes

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Free Download Michaela Antonín Malaníková, "Pre-modern Towns at the Times of Catastrophes"
English | ISBN: 1032347376 | 2023 | 216 pages | EPUB | 3 MB
Covering areas in today’s Ukraine, Poland, Bohemia, Moravia, Silesia, and Slovakia, this book studies the impact of both natural and human-inflicted disasters on pre-modern towns.

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January 20, 2024

Towns and Commerce in Viking-Age Scandinavia

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English | 2024 | ISBN: 1009298054 | 314 Pages | PDF | 9 MB
The Viking Age, from c.750 to 1050 CE, was an era of major social change in Scandinavia. By the end of this period of sweeping transformation, Scandinavia, once a pagan periphery, had been firmly integrated into occidental Europe. Archaeological remains offer evidence of this process, which included and intertwined with Christianisation, state formation, and the dawn of urbanisation in Scandinavia. In this volume, Sven Kalmring offers an interdisciplinary and geographically wide-ranging approach to understanding the emergence of towns and commerce in Viking-age Scandinavia and their eventual demise by the end of the period. Using the towns of Hedeby, Birka, Kaupang, and Ribe as case studies, he also tracks the diverging characteristics of these urban communities against the background of traditional social structures in the Viking world. Instead of tracing the results of Viking Age urbanisation, or mapping that process by establishing economic networks, Kalmring focusses on the very reasons behind the emergence of towns, and their eventual decline.

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January 5, 2024

Lost Towns of the Swift River Valley Drowned by the Quabbin

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Free Download Elena Palladino, "Lost Towns of the Swift River Valley: Drowned by the Quabbin"
English | ISBN: 1467147974 | 2022 | 160 pages | EPUB | 5 MB
In April 1938, Swift River Valley residents held a farewell ball to mark the demise of the quintessential New England town of Enfield and its three smaller neighbors, Greenwich, Dana, and Prescott.

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January 1, 2024

Exploring Ireland’s Viking-Age Towns Houses and Homes

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Free Download Rebecca Boyd, "Exploring Ireland’s Viking-Age Towns: Houses and Homes "
English | ISBN: 0367482789 | 2023 | 274 pages | EPUB, PDF | 28 MB + 33 MB
Exploring Ireland’s Viking-Age Towns discusses the emergence of towns, urban lifestyles, and urban identities in Ireland. This coincides with the arrival of the Vikings and the appearance of the post-and-wattle Type 1 house. These houses reflect this crucial transition to urban living with its attendant changes for individuals, households, and society.

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