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050 0 4 _aCC72
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049 _aMAIN
100 1 _aDevecka, Martin,
_d1983-
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245 1 0 _aBroken Cities
_bA Historical Sociology of Ruins /
_cMartin Devecka.
260 _aBaltimore :
_bJohns Hopkins University Press,
_c(c)2020.
260 _aBaltimore, Md. :
_bProject MUSE,
_c0000.
300 _a1 online resource (pages cm)
336 _atext
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338 _aonline resource
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347 _adata file
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504 _a2
505 0 0 _aAthens: Democracy, Oligarchy, and Ruins in Classical Greece --
_tRome: Ruins and Empire in the Late Antique World --
_tBaghdad: Postclassical Ruins and the Islamic Cityscape --
_tTenochtitlan: Preservationism and Its Failures in Early Modern Mexico.
520 0 _a"Broken Cities is a comparative sociological study of ruination, the process by which monuments, architectural sites, and urban centers decay into ruin over time. Weaving together four case studies of classical Athens, late antique Rome, medieval Baghdad, and sixteenth-century Mexico City, Devecka shows that ruination is a complex social process largely contingent on changing imperial control rather than the result of immediate (natural) catastrophic events, as popular opinion might assume"--
_cProvided by publisher.
530 _a2
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650 0 _aCities and towns
_xHistory
_yTo 1500.
650 0 _aSocial archaeology
_vCase studies.
655 1 _aElectronic Books.
700 1 _aProject Muse.
_edistributor.
856 4 0 _uhttps://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=2446097&site=eds-live&custid=s3260518
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_bCynthia Snell
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_dCynthia Snell