This Week’s New Books: Of Bondage and Policy, Planning, and People

Of Bondage Of Bondage: Debt, Property, and Personhood in Early Modern England
Amanda Bailey
232 pages | 6 x 9 | 1 illus.
Cloth 2013 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4516-5 | $55.00 | £36.00

Focusing on dramatic literature's contribution to the developing narrative of possessed persons, Of Bondage deepens our understanding of creditor-debtor relations in the period and sheds new light on the conceptual conditions for the institutions of indentured servitude and African slavery.  Read more . . .

Policy, Planning, and People Policy, Planning, and People: Promoting Justice in Urban Development
Edited by Naomi Carmon and Susan S. Fainstein
448 pages | 6 x 9 | 19 illus.
Paper 2013 | ISBN 978-0-8122-2239-5 | $49.95 | £32.50
A volume in the City in the Twenty-First Century series

Policy, Planning, and People presents original essays by leading authorities in the field of urban policy and planning. The volume includes theoretical and practice-based essays that integrate social equity considerations into state-of-the-art discussions of findings in a variety of planning issues. Read more . . .

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