Search Results - "The Dispossessed"

Migrants and City-Making : Dispossession, Displacement, and Urban Regeneration / by Simsek-Caglar, Ayse, Schiller, Nina Glick

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : multiscalar city-making and emplacement: processes, concepts, and methods -- Introducing three cities : similarities despite difference -- Welcoming narratives : small migrant businesses within multiscalar restructuring -- They are us : urban sociabilities within multiscalar power -- Social citizenship of the dispossessed : embracing global Christianity -- "Searching its future in its past" : the multiscalar emplacement of returnees -- Conclusion : time, space, and agency.…”
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Royals and the Reich the princes von Hessen in Nazi Germany / by Petropoulos, Jonathan

Table of Contents: “…The interconnectedness of the nobility: strategies to preserve privilege through the Great War -- The Princes Von Hessen during the Weimar Republic: tribulations, the high life, and Fascist flirtations -- Nazi high society: making Hitler "Salonfähig" and helping the Nazis to power -- A place in the Reich: princely careers in the Nazi state -- Roles in an increasingly radical regime -- Miscalculation and misfortune -- Postwar justice: denazification and (partial) dispossession -- Rebuilding a life: Schloss Fasanerie, financial viability, and burdens of the past -- Understanding German princes in the twentieth century.…”
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