1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910557797003321

Autore

Mentzel Peter C

Titolo

For God and Country : Essays on Religion and Nationalism

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Basel, Switzerland, : MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, 2021

Descrizione fisica

1 electronic resource (170 p.)

Soggetti

Religion & beliefs

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Sommario/riassunto

Religion and nationalism are both powerful and important markers of individual identity, but the relationship between the two has been a source of considerable debate. Much, if not most, of the early work done in Nationalism Studies has been based, at least implicitly, on the idea that religion, as a genealogical carrier of identity, was displaced with the advent of secular modernity, which was caused by nationalism. Or, to put it another way, national identity, and its ideological manifestation nationalism, filled the void left in people’s self-identification as religion retreated in the face of modernity. Since at least the late 1990s, this view has been increasingly challenged by scholars trying to account for the apparent persistence of religious identities. Perhaps even more interestingly, scholars of both religion and nationalism have noted that these two kinds of self-identification, while sometimes being tense, as the earlier models explained, are also frequently coexistent or even mutually supportive. This collection of essays explores the current thinking about the relationship between religion and nationalism from a variety of perspectives, using a number of different case studies. What all these approaches have in common is their interest in complicating our understandings of nationalism as a primarily secular phenomenon by bringing religion back into the discussion.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910337919003321

Autore

Wassenhoven Louis C

Titolo

The Ancestry of Regional Spatial Planning : A Planner’s Look at History / / by Louis C. Wassenhoven

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2019

ISBN

3-319-96995-1

Edizione

[1st ed. 2019.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (258 pages)

Disciplina

519.5

Soggetti

Regional planning

Urban planning

Cities and towns—History

Economic development

History, Modern

Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning

Urban History

Regional Development

Modern History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Preface  -- Ch.1. Introduction (Looking for the origins of regional spatial planning – Short presentation of chapters – Appendix on regional planning in the interwar period) -- PART I (Chapters 2-11)  -- Ch.2. Historical periods, regions and examples  -- Ch. 3. Greek colonization -- Ch. 4. Colonies and towns in the Hellenistic, Roman and Byzantine Empires  -- Ch. 5. New capitals -- Ch. 6. Middle Ages and Modern Era: Towns and planned settlements -- Ch. 7. Land: Empires and ancient world -- Ch. 8. Land: Medieval period and Modern Era -- Ch. 9. Government, territorial organization and decision structures  -- Ch. 10. Trade, industry and natural resources -- Ch. 11. Transport, infrastructures and fortifications -- Ch. 12. Parameters of analysis  -- PART II  -- Ch. 13. Planning “actors”, government and regions -- Ch. 14. Planning process: Means and survey -- Ch. 15. Population re-distribution and spatial re-structuring -- Ch. 16. Towns



and urban networks  -- Ch. 17. Land, natural resources and innovations -- Ch. 18. Networks, flows, trade and interconnected areal units -- Ch. 19. Long-run change and future prospects: Closing statement  -- Bibliography -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

This book is not a historical or archaeological treatise, but rather a study in which the author looks at the past, not as a historian, but as a planner who has the ambition to unravel the early manifestations of his discipline; a discipline which did not exist as such in remote periods, but the ingredients of which were nevertheless present. The author has observed the past equipped with knowledge and understanding of what regional planning was in the second half of the twentieth century and still is. He stands in the period of the first decades after the Second World War, which were the formative years of regional planning, and looks back at bygone ages. He discusses ideas and literature from the immediate post-war period in order to examine the ancestry of regional planning through their lens. The book will attract a broad range of readers because of its approach and its wide coverage of historical periods and world regions. Although Europe is the main focus, the book contains material on all continents and all periods, the ancient world, the medieval age and the modern era. The history of Urban Planning is taught and researched widely, but the history, or pre-history, before the twentieth century, of Regional Spatial Planning is not. This book will fill that vacuum.



3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910897190603321

Titolo

Compte rendu des travaux de la Commission de la dette publique d'Égypte pendant l'exercice

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Impr. Nationale

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Periodico