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Karachi : ordered disorder and the struggle for the city /

With an official population approaching fifteen million, Karachi is one of the largest cities in the world. It is also the most violent. Since the mid-1980s, it has endured endemic political conflict and criminal violence, which revolve around control of the city and its resources (votes, land and b...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Gayer, Laurent (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Oxford University Press, 2014.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • A contested city
  • From student brawls to campus wars
  • 'The Mohajirs have arrived!'
  • The bandits who would be kings
  • Jihad comes to town
  • A city on the edge
  • Geographies of fear.