Author: Lionel Gossman
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226305004
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 630
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This remarkable history tells the story of the independent city-republic of Basel in the nineteenth century, and of four major thinkers who shaped its intellectual history: the historian Jacob Burckhardt, the philologist and anthropologist Johann Jacob Bachofen, the theologian Franz Overbeck, and the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche. "Remarkable and exceptionally readable . . . There is wit, wisdom and an immense erudition on every page."—Jonathan Steinberg, Times Literary Supplement "Gossman's book, a product of many years of active contemplation, is a tour de force. It is at once an intellectual history, a cultural history of Basel and Europe, and an important contribution to the study of nineteenth-century historiography. Written with a grace and elegance that many aspire to, few seldom achieve, this is model scholarship."—John R. Hinde, American Historical Review
Author: ETH Studio Basel, Contemporary City Institute
Publisher: Park Publishing (WI)
ISBN: 9783038600237
Category : Cities and towns
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Between 2008 and 2014, ETH Studio Basel, under the guidance of Roger Diener and Marcel Meili, has been investigating the process of urbanisation taking place outside cities. Territory - in the context of this investigation denotes both: the surroundings that a city subsumes into its own structure and the core city itself, which is the centre of this process of urbanisation, or "confiscation". Investigated were six regions on six continents: The Nile Valley with the dense corset of natural landscape surrounding a linear city; Rome-Adria, where territorial cells have formed within the territory, spawning an urban type of tremendous dynamism; Florida, presenting highly complex patterns of territorial organisation; Vietnam's Red River Delta, where recent reform exposed traditional settlement and cultivation of the delta to freer forces; Oman, where urbanisation of a territory essentially means reclaiming the desert with the immediate necessity to develop a system for water distribution; and Belo Horizonte, where natural conditions likewise play a major role in organising the territory as surface mining entails huge transformations of the natural terrain. The new book features two introductory essays on ETH Studio Basel's research approach and on terminology, concise illustrated reports on the six regions, and four concluding topical essays.
Author: Adam LeBor
Publisher: PublicAffairs
ISBN: 1610392558
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 364
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Tower of Basel is the first investigative history of the world's most secretive global financial institution. Based on extensive archival research in Switzerland, Britain, and the United States, and in-depth interviews with key decision-makers -- including Paul Volcker, the former chairman of the US Federal Reserve; Sir Mervyn King, governor of the Bank of England; and former senior Bank for International Settlements managers and officials -- Tower of Basel tells the inside story of the Bank for International Settlements (BIS): the central bankers' own bank. Created by the governors of the Bank of England and the Reichsbank in 1930, and protected by an international treaty, the BIS and its assets are legally beyond the reach of any government or jurisdiction. The bank is untouchable. Swiss authorities have no jurisdiction over the bank or its premises. The BIS has just 140 customers but made tax-free profits of 1.17 billion in 2011-2012. Since its creation, the bank has been at the heart of global events but has often gone unnoticed. Under Thomas McKittrick, the bank's American president from 1940-1946, the BIS was open for business throughout the Second World War. The BIS accepted looted Nazi gold, conducted foreign exchange deals for the Reichsbank, and was used by both the Allies and the Axis powers as a secret contact point to keep the channels of international finance open. After 1945 the BIS -- still behind the scenes -- for decades provided the necessary technical and administrative support for the trans-European currency project, from the first attempts to harmonize exchange rates in the late 1940s to the launch of the Euro in 2002. It now stands at the center of efforts to build a new global financial and regulatory architecture, once again proving that it has the power to shape the financial rules of our world. Yet despite its pivotal role in the financial and political history of the last century and during the economic current crisis, the BIS has remained largely unknown -- until now.
Author: Younghusband City Notebooks Staff
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781484852972
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 150
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This quirky city notebook is designed to inspire listmakers to create their own city guide and city biography in list form. It's a do it (all) yourself notebook for independent travelers and thinkers! "YOU ARE AS COOL AS YOUR CITY. Naturally. So, why not curate your city and capture the essence of that coolness? This is a city guide re-imagined for travelers, urban explorers and city locals alike!" — Cormac Younghusband Curating Basel: City Notebook For Basel, Switzerland is a do-it-yourself city guide that helps you keep all your important city information organized and ready for when you need it and where you need it. Use the pages of this city notebook to document your adventures, experiences, thoughts, and memories. Have fun making lists of all the highlights and lowlights the city has to offer. Inside you will find D.I.Y. sections like: Getting Started, City Confidential, City Calendar, City Folks, City Adventure, Places to Stay, See & Explore, Eat Drink & Be Merry, Shopping, Sport, Health & Fitness, Entertaining Outings, City Escapes & Excursions, One Day Must Not Miss, Blacklist Must Miss, Curator Special Lists, Local Language & Dialect, Rating & Embetterment, and Notes, Sketches, Maps. This is the perfect place to capture and curate everything you find fascinating about Basel-which is why it's your city guide in lists. Make your time more fun, more organized, more productive and more creative with a D.I.Y. City Guide from Younghusband City Notebooks. "Aldous Huxley said 'For every traveler who has any taste of his own, the only useful guidebook will be the one which he himself has written.'" To help with that, I created a line of D.I.Y City Guides In Lists to help you curate your city and to curate your world. Enjoy!" — Cormac Younghusband CITIES IN THE YOUNGHUSBAND CITY NOTEBOOK COLLECTION: Adelaide, Amsterdam, Antwerp, Asuncion, Athens, Atlanta, Auckland, Bangalore, Bangkok, Barcelona, Basel, Beijing, Beirut, Belo Horizonte, Berlin, Bilbao, Bogotá, Boston, Brasilia, Brisbane, Brussels, Budapest, Buenos Aires, Busan, Cairo, Calgary, Canberra, Cape Town, Caracas, Casablanca, Chang Mai, Chennai, Chicago, Christchurch, Cologne, Colombo, Copenhagen, Dallas, Delhi, Denver, Dhaka, Dubai, Dublin, Düsseldorf, Edinburgh, Florence, Frankfurt, Geneva, Genoa, Glasgow, Goa, Guangzhou, Hamburg, Hanoi, Havana, Helsinki, Ho Chi Minh City, Hong Kong, Honolulu, Houston, Hyderabad, Istanbul, Jakarta, Johannesburg, Kathmandu, Kinshasa, Kobe, Kolkata, Kuala Lampur, Kyoto, Lagos, Las Vegas, Lhasa, Lima, Lisbon, Liverpool, London, Los Angeles, Luxembourg, Lyon, Maastricht, Macau, Madrid, Manchester, Manila, Marrakesh, Marseille, Melbourne, Merida, Mexico City, Miami, Milan, Monaco, Montevideo, Montreal, Moscow, Mumbai, Munich, Nagoya, Nairobi, Naples, New Orleans, New York, Nice, Nuremberg, Osaka, Ottawa, Palermo, Palma, Paris, Perth, Philadelphia, Porto, Prague, Pune, Reykjavik, Riga, Rio de Janeiro, Rome, Rotterdam, Ruhr Valley, Salzburg, San Francisco, Santiago, São Paulo, Sapporo, Seattle, Seoul, Seville, Shanghai, Shenzhen, Singapore, Sochi, St Petersburg, Stockholm, Strasbourg, Stuttgart, Sydney, Taipei, Tel Aviv, Tianjin, Tokyo, Toronto, Turin, Valencia, Vancouver, Venice, Victoria, Vienna, Vientiane, Vladivostok, Warsaw, Washington D.C., Wellington, Yangon, Yokohama, Zurich "Find a place in the world you haven't been, and go there. Keep on trucking, my friends" - Cormac Younghusband, The World's Most Legendary Nomad
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