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"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"--

Social archaeology --- Cities and towns --- History --- Rome (Italy) --- Mexico City (Mexico) --- Baghdad (Iraq) --- Athens (Greece) --- Antiquities.

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"An inside view of the workings of La Castañeda General Insane Asylum-a public mental health institution founded in Mexico City in 1910 only months before the outbreak of the Mexican Revolution"--

Psychiatric hospital care --- Mentally ill --- Institutional care --- History --- Manicomio General La Castañeda (Mexico City, Mexico) --- Mexico --- Psychiatric hospital treatment --- Hospital care --- Mental health services --- Insane --- Mental illness --- Mental patients --- Mentally disordered --- Sick --- People with mental disabilities --- Patients --- Manicomio General (Mexico City, Mexico) --- Mexico (City). --- Mexico City (Mexico). --- Castañeda (Psychiatric hospital) --- La Castañeda (Psychiatric hospital) --- Manicomio "La Castañeda" --- Anáhuac --- Estados Unidos Mexicanos --- Maxico --- Méjico --- Mekishiko --- Meḳsiḳe --- Meksiko --- Meksyk --- Messico --- Mexique (Country) --- República Mexicana --- Stany Zjednoczone Meksyku --- United Mexican States --- United States of Mexico --- מקסיקו --- メキシコ --- history of the Americas --- general & world history --- psychiatry --- public health and preventive medicine --- fiction: general and literary

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Esta monografía analiza principalmente las escrituras de diversos autores mexicanos sobre los trágicos acontecimientos del 2 de octubre de 1968 en relación con la represión del movimiento estudiantil a la luz de la reescritura de la historia mexicana y en torno al espacio simbólico de Tlatelolco, emblema de la herencia mexica y lugar de sacrificios humanos y batallas perdidas. Esta actualización semántica que practica una parte de la recepción literaria del 68, asimilando la tragedia de Tlatelolco con momentos anteriores de la historia mexicana y resignificando sobre todo el sentido de la cultura náhuatl en la identidad mexicana, ha vertebrado durante cincuenta años una cantidad notable de poemas, narraciones y obras de teatro que plantean un diálogo identitario alrededor de dos tópicos fundamentales: el de la violencia repetida y el de la visión de los vencidos.

Mexican literature --- Massacres in literature --- Tlatelolco Massacre, Mexico City, Mexico, 1968 --- Student movements --- History and criticism --- History --- Mexico --- In literature --- Mexican literature - 20th century - History and criticism --- Student movements - Mexico - History - 20th century --- Mexico - In literature

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On April 26, 1865, as Abraham Lincoln's funeral cortege paused in Union Square, New York, before being taken by rail to Springfield, Illinois, William Cullen Bryant listened as his own verse elegy for the slain president was read to a great concourse of mourners by the Reverend Samuel Osgood. Only five years earlier and a few blocks downtown, at Cooper Union, Bryant had introduced the prairie candidate to his first eastern audience. There his masterful appeal to the conscience of the nation prepared the way for his election to the presidency on the verge of the Civil War. Now, Bryant stood below Henry Kirke Brown's equestrian statue of George Washington, impressing Osgood as if he were "the 19tth Century itself thinking over the nation and the age in that presence." Bryant's staunch support of the Union cause throughout the war, and of Lincoln's war efforts, no less than his known influence with the president, led several prominent public figures to urge that he write Lincoln's biography. Oliver Wendell Holmes wrote him, "No man combines the qualities for his biographer so completely as yourself and the finished task would be a noble crown to a noble literary life." But Bryant declined, declaring his inability to record impartially critical events in which he had taken so central a part. Furthermore, while preoccupied with the editorial direction of the New York Evening Post, he was just then repossessing and enlarging his family's homestead at Cummington, Massachusetts, where he hoped his ailing wife might, during long summers in mountain air, regain her health. But in July 1866, Frances died of recurrent rheumatic fever, and, Bryant confessed to Richard Dana, he felt as "one cast out of Paradise." After France's death Bryant traveled with his daughter Julia for nearly a year through Great Britain and the Continent, where he met British statesman and novelist Edward Bulwer Lytton and French literary critic Hyppolyte Taine, renewed his friendship with Spanish poet Carolina Coronado, Italian liberator Giuseppe Garibaldi, and British and American artists, and visited the family of the young French journalist Georges Clemenceau, as well as the graves of earlier acquaintances Francis Lord Jeffrey and Elizabeth Barrett Browning. In his spare moments Bryant sought solace by beginning the translation of Homer, and Longfellow had found relief after his wife's tragic death by rendering into English Dante's Divine Comedy. Home again in New York, Bryant bought and settled in a house at 24 West 16th Street which would be his city home for the rest of his life. Here he completed major publications, including the Iliad and Odyssey of Homer and an exhaustive Library of Poetry and Song, and added to published tributes to earlier friends, such as Thomas Cole, Fenimore Cooper, and Washington Irving, memorial discourses on Fitz-Greene Halleck and Gulian Verplanck. In addition to his continued direction of the New York Homeopathic Medical college and the American Free Trade League, he was elected to the presidency of the Williams College Alumni Association, the International Copyright Association, and the Century Association, the club of artists and writers of which, twenty years earlier, he had been a principal founder and which he would direct for the last decade of his life.

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The adverse effects of flood disasters in urban areas have been increasing in severity and extent over the past years. The amount of loss resulting from these events is also increasing exponentially, particularly in highly urbanised urban areas, where the effects of intensive land use and climate change are particularly extreme—all despite that our scientific knowledge, technical competence, and computational capacity to develop highly sophisticated and accurate forecasting and simulation models are higher than ever, as is our capacity to map and analyse flood-related data. In order to tackle this global issue, it is fundamental to keep on promoting and developing fundamental and applied research that allows the better targeting of interventions to improve resilience, reduce vulnerability, and enhance recovery as well as assisting decision-makers in delivering more effective flood risk-reduction policies. This book aims to contribute to this goal by providing a space in which to share and discuss recent studies and state-of- the-art methodologies focused on the assessment and mitigation of flood risk in urban areas. It includes nine high-quality chapters authored by eminent scholars who had the tremendous generosity to join me in this editorial project. The range of topics covered by these nine studies is extraordinarily vast, reflecting the complexity of the current challenges associated with the topic.

History of engineering & technology --- integrated operation --- urban stream --- urban drainage facility --- revised resilience index --- flood --- 3Di --- loss assessment --- analytic hierarchy process (AHP) --- risk map --- climate change --- urban flood risk --- flood damage --- urban disaster --- land use --- flood risk susceptibility --- FRS-GWR modeling --- built-up growth prediction --- Thailand --- Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) --- HEC-RAS --- 2D modeling --- flood hazard --- urban and peri-urban area --- flood risk assessment --- flood evacuation --- evacuation modelling --- behavioral design --- urban built environment at risk --- human motion in floodwaters --- remote sensing --- flood extent mapping --- Can Tho City --- Google Earth engine --- uncertainty --- support vector machine regression (SVR) --- urban flood --- risk management --- Historic City Centre of Guimarães --- pluvial flood --- indirect impacts --- risk assessment --- graph analysis --- flood mitigation --- Mexico City --- integrated operation --- urban stream --- urban drainage facility --- revised resilience index --- flood --- 3Di --- loss assessment --- analytic hierarchy process (AHP) --- risk map --- climate change --- urban flood risk --- flood damage --- urban disaster --- land use --- flood risk susceptibility --- FRS-GWR modeling --- built-up growth prediction --- Thailand --- Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) --- HEC-RAS --- 2D modeling --- flood hazard --- urban and peri-urban area --- flood risk assessment --- flood evacuation --- evacuation modelling --- behavioral design --- urban built environment at risk --- human motion in floodwaters --- remote sensing --- flood extent mapping --- Can Tho City --- Google Earth engine --- uncertainty --- support vector machine regression (SVR) --- urban flood --- risk management --- Historic City Centre of Guimarães --- pluvial flood --- indirect impacts --- risk assessment --- graph analysis --- flood mitigation --- Mexico City