Cities of Dust and Mud David Groome This is the subject examined

This is the subject examined in this candid assessment of our dark vicarious thrills

Some fifty years later

they managed to adjust and adapt to a new political and economic order

All chapters are linked to relevant and authentic research and include suggestions for practical activities

Pauline Myers

Cities of Dust and Mud David Groome This is the subject examinedThis book explores the social costs of urban change and the limits of modernity through a comparative study of two Balkan cities, Belgrade and Sofia. Between 1820 and 1920, both cities grew from small Ottoman towns into large national capitals, as their bourgeois elites envisioned new, urban societies on the European borderlands. This book traces the lofty ambitions and dire consequences of this project: situated on the periphery of global capital