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Cover -- Contents -- List of illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Biography -- Introduction -- 1 "If then, why not now?" Blanca Stern (née Schreiber) and Necha (Natalie) Gluck (née Dux) who arrived from Austria, aged eight and ten respectively, in 1938 -- 2 No man's land Duncan Ross who arrived from India, aged eight, in 1956 -- 3 Precious cargo Argun Imamzade who arrived from Cyprus, aged fourteen, in 1964 -- 4 Following mum to the 'motherland' Richard Lue and Roberta who arrived, aged seven and eight respectively, from Jamaica in 1964 -- 5 "I much prefer roasted rat" Maurice Nwokeji who arrived, aged nine, from Nigeria, in 1970 -- 6 The Battle of Brick Lane Six young people who arrived from East Pakistan, subsequently Bangladesh, aged eleven to sixteen, between 1969 and 1973 -- 7 A Pakistani Scot with a Mid-Atlantic drawl Zohra who arrived from Pakistan in 1975 -- 8 Out of her depth Linh Vu who arrived, aged seven, from Vietnam in 1979 -- 9 A child soldier who knew too much Henry Bran who arrived, aged seventeen, from El Salvador in 1981 -- 10 "Caught in a flow of water" Eylem Binboga who arrived, aged twelve, from Turkey in 1987 -- 11 Love of the motherland Ahmed Ali, originally from Somaliland, who arrived, aged eleven, via Djibouti in 2004 -- Said who arrived, aged sixteen, from Somalia in 2012 -- 12 Girl power - finding a talent and following a dream Bilqis who arrived from Yemen as a teenager in 2005 and Nimo Jama who arrived, aged fifteen, from Somaliland, in 2009 -- 13 On her own Mariam who arrived, aged sixteen, from Guinea in 2006 -- 14 "Home is where the love is" Yosef, originally from Eritrea, who arrived aged sixteen, in 2011 -- 15 Seeking sanctuary on a Scottish Island Syrian children who arrived from Lebanon, aged six to sixteen, on the Isle of Bute, Scotland in 2015.

IntroductionOur urban planet in space and time --part 1Cities of the rivers.Making politics from sunshine, earth, and water ;Igniting empire ;Wealth for a few, poverty for many i ;Wealth for a few, poverty for many ii ;How knowledge became power ;The realm of consequence --part 2Cities of the world ocean.Bastions, battleships, and gunpowder cities ;Wealth from the winds and waves ;Consuming the earth in cities of light... and delight --part 3Cities of hydrocarbon.Chimneys to smokestacks ;Planet of the people i: the Atlantic cauldron ;Planet of the people ii: feminists, abolitionists, and los liberales ;Weapons of world conquest ;Capitalist explosions ;The pharaohs of flow ;Planet of the people iii: an urban majority takes its space ;Lamps out ;The labyrinths of terror ;Gathering velocities i: tailpipe tracts and tower blocks ;Gathering velocities ii: Liberation and "development" ;Greatest accelerations i: new empires, new multitudes ;Greatest accelerations ii: shacks and citadels ;Greatest accelerations iii: pleasure palaces and sweatshops ;Great accelerations iv: maximal hydrocarbon, maximal waste ;2020 hindsight... and foresight?

"The eleven articles in this volume examine controversial subjects of central importance to medieval economic historians. Topics include the relative roles played by money and credit in financing the economy, whether credit could compensate for shortages of coin, and whether it could counteract the devastating mortality of the Black Death. Drawing on a detailed analysis of the Statute Merchant and Staple records, the articles chart the chronological and geographical changes in the economy from the late-thirteenth to the early-sixteenth centuries. This period started with the triumph of English merchants over alien exporters in the early 1300s, and concluded in the early 1500s with cloth exports overtaking wool in value. The volume assesses how these changes came about, as well as the ways in which both political and economic forces altered the pattern of regional wealth and enterprise, in ways which saw the northern towns decline, and London rise to be the undisputed financial capital of England."

This book charts the contributions made to the development of the late medieval English economy by enterprise, money, and credit in a period which saw its major export trade in wool, which earned most of its money-supply, suffer from prolonged periods of warfare, high taxation, adverse weather, and mortality of sheep. Consequently, the economy suffered from severe shortages of coin, as well as from internal political conflicts, before the plague of 1348-9 halved the population. The book examines from the Statute Merchant certificates of debt, the extent to which credit, which normally reflects economic activity, was affected by these events, and the extent to which London, and the leading counties were affected differently by them. The analysis covers the entire kingdom, decade by decade, and thereby contributes to the controversy whether over-population or shortage of coin most inhibited its development.--