Cities, war, and terrorism [electronic resource] : towards an urban geopolitics / edited by Stephen Graham.
Cities, War and Terrorism is the first book to look critically at the ways in which warfare, terrorism and counter-terrorism policies intersect in cities in the post Cold-War period. A path-breaking exploration of the intersections of war, terrorism and citiesArgues that contemporary cities are the...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Malden, MA :
Blackwell Publishing,
©2004.
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| Series: | Studies in urban and social change.
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| Summary: | Cities, War and Terrorism is the first book to look critically at the ways in which warfare, terrorism and counter-terrorism policies intersect in cities in the post Cold-War period. A path-breaking exploration of the intersections of war, terrorism and citiesArgues that contemporary cities are the key strategic sites of geopolitical conflictWritten by the world & rsquo;s leading analysts of the intersections of urban space and military and terrorist violenceDraws on cutting-edge research from geography, history, architecture, planning, sociology, critical theory, politics, international relation. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xxiii, 384 pages) : illustrations, maps. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 335-370) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780470753033 047075303X 9780470753026 0470753021 1281322792 9781281322791 9781405115742 1405115742 9781405115759 1405115750 |