Cities of Power

Göran Therborn analyses urban life with sweeping historical and global range. As he shows in tremendous detail, urban history is baked into a place by its streets, its institutions and the cultural outlook of its inhabitants – Max Holleran * Times Literary Supplement *Should become an early port of call for anyone looking to know more about how urban and national power functions around the world * Irish Times *One of the world’s most engaging and intriguing sociologists. Cities of Power helps us understand the current tensions between states and people, capitals and peripheries, populism and elitism, nationalism and globalism – Felipe Fernández-Armesto, author of Our America: A Hispanic History of the United StatesCities of Power is explicitly a riposte to the idea of the Global City, and the peculiar Monocle-magazine vision of trans-national, interconnected, intangible capitalism that it serves to alternately describe and vindicate. Few thinkers display such a genuinely global range – Owen Hatherley * New Left Review *One more publication in a sparkling list of career accomplishments, Cities of Power might function as an important resource for many a sociology doctoral student – Luzia Lodder * PopMatters *

Goran Therborn is Professor Emeritus of Sociology at the University of Cambridge. His works have been published in at least twenty-four languages and include Inequalities of the World and Between Sex and Power.