General plan for urban and urbanizing areas, city and county of Honolulu

An introduction to the life of towns and cities in the medieval period, this book shows how medieval towns grew to become important centers of trade and liberty. Beginning with a l...

This study offers the first extensive analysis of the function and significance of urban panegyric in the Central Middle Ages, a flexible literary genre which enjoyed a marked and ...

In a growing portion of the global South—starting with Latin America and the Caribbean—civil wars are on the decline. But rapid urbanization—much of it precipitated by the toll of ...

This chapter examines the popularity of American minstrelsy in Hawaii during the nineteenth century. It looks at professional touring minstrel troupes from the mainland, amateur tr...

Though the Cantonese opera network spanned the Americas, its manifestation in any particular place varied according to local conditions. This chapter considers three Chinese theate...