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Using both grand conceptualizations and grounded case studies, Allan Pred and Michael Watts look at how people cope with and give meaning to capitalism and modernity in different times and places. As capital accumulation has grown and taken new forms, it has affected technology and labor relations which in turn have affected people's daily lives. These changes have not always been either welcome or easy. Pred and Watts focus on the symbolic di...

This book aims to acquaint American historians, anthropologists, and sociologists with a discourse that questions prioritizing of the temporal over the spatial. It contends that social structuring processes are context dependent, for they involve the unfolding of historical geographies.

This book is intended to acquaint American historians, anthropologists, and sociologists with a discourse that questions the prioritizing of the temporal over the spatial¿the historical over the geographical.

Originally published in 1977. This book offers answers to two interrelated questions about the modern city relating to the processes underlying the past and present growth of `post-industrial¿ metropolitan complexes and their economically advanced city-systems, and efforts to reduce interregional inequalities of employment opportunity.

For over a century Europe has been characterized by a plurality of capitalist modernities. At any moment, each country possesses its own distinctly modern qualities which are partly shaped through interrelationships with other countries. "Recognising European" "Modernities" explores a century of civilization through a critical examination of the extreme case of Sweden. Using montage--relayering multiple pasts and on-going present--the book cha...

Originally published in 1977. This book offers answers to two interrelated questions about the modern city relating to the processes underlying the past and present growth of `post-industrial¿ metropolitan complexes and their economically advanced city-systems, and efforts to reduce interregional inequalities of employment opportunity.

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In the major new work of urban history, Allan Pred interprets the process by which major cities grew and the entire city-system of the United States developed during the antebellum decades 1840-1860. This period was marked by the most rapid urbanization the nation has ever seen. It was a time not only of industrialization but also of massive reorganization of the country's resources.

Using montage - relayering multiple pasts and on-going present - this challenges the obsession with "postmodernity, " demanding a deeper, more connective understanding of the pleasures and dangers of the European present.

Using both grand conceptualizations and grounded case studies, Allan Pred and Michael Watts look at how people cope with and give meaning to capitalism and modernity in different times and places. As capital accumulation has grown and taken new forms, it has affected technology and labor relations which in turn have affected people's daily lives. These changes have not always been either welcome or easy. Pred and Watts focus on the symbolic di...

Reflects how the dramatic transformations of Stockholm in late 1800s resulted in elements of the language being lost.

Through one figure- Badin, an eighteenth-century Afro-Caribbean slave given to the Swedish royal court- Allan Pred shows how stereotypes endure through the repeated confusion of facts and fiction, providing a highly original perspective on the perpetuation of racializing stereotypes in the West.

Through one figure--Badin, eighteenth-century Afro-Caribbean slave given to the Swedish royal court--Allan Pred shows how stereotypes endure through the repeated confusion of facts and fiction, providing a highly original perspective on the perpetuation of racializing stereotypes in the West. In the first of two interlocking montages inspired by Walter Benjamin, the book focuses on Badin, who died in Stockholm in 1822, and representations of h...