The City in Central Europe:
Culture and Society from 1800 to the Present
Malcolm Gee, Tim Kirk, Jill Steward (Editors)
- Synopsis
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This collection of essays examines the impact of urbanisation on the cultural life of the German states and the Habsburg Empire from 1800 onwards. Cities discussed include Berlin, Budapest, Cracow, Hamburg, Prague and Vienna.
The over arching theme of this book is the shaping of modern urban culture - of modern 'urbanity' - in a broadly defined 'central europe' that included cities at very different stages of modernisation. From a variety of disciplinary perspectives, the essays in the volume examine the ways in which different forces acted to shape the urban environment, regulate behaviour and promote cultural activity, and the representations of urban life and identities that resulted from this.
Please note, 'The City in Central Europe' is now out of print. However, the Group has some copies in stock – contact Malcolm Gee or Tim Kirk if you would like to acquire one.
- Contents
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- A City in Distress?: Paul Bröcker and the new architecture of Hamburg, 1900-1918
- Matthew Jefferies, University of Manchester
- From the garden to the factory: urban visions in Czechoslovakia between the wars
- Jane Pavitt, Victoria and Albert Museum
- Networks and boundaries: German art centres and their satellites, 1815-1914
- Robin Lenman, University of Warwick
- The Berlin art world, 1918-1933
- Malcolm Gee, University of Northumbria
- Cultural Institutions as urban innovations: the Czech lands, Poland and the eastern Baltic, 1750-1900
- Lud'a Klusáková, Charles University, Prague
- Castles, cabarets and cartoons: claims on Polishness in Kraków around 1905
- David Crowley, Royal College of Art
- 'Gruss aus Wien': urban tourism in Austria-Hungary before the First World War
- Jill Steward, University of Northumbria
- Big-city Jews: Jewish big city - the dialectics of Jewish assimilation in Vienna c.1900
- Steven Beller, Washington D.C.
- Popular culture and politics in imperial Vienna
- Tim Kirk, University of Newcastle
- 'Making a living from disgrace': the politics of prostitution, female poverty and urban gender codes in Budapest and Vienna, 1860-1920
- Susan Zimmermann, Central European University, Budapest
- Coping with social and economic crisis: the Viennese experience, 1929-1933
- Gerhard Melinz, University of Linz
- Walter Ruttmann's Berlin: Symphony of a City: traffic-mindedness the city in interwar Germany
- Anthony McElligott, University of Limerick
- Wim Wenders and Berlin
- Sabine Jaccaud, London
- Reviews:
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- Art History (23, 3, 2000)
- The English Historical Review (April 2001)
- Centropa (January 2001)
- Vierteljahrschrift fuer Sozial- und Wirtschaftgeschichte (88, 4, 2001)
- Urban History (28, 3, 2001)
- The Town Planning Review (73, 1, 2002)
- Pages:
- 276
- Publisher:
- Ashgate (28 Sep 1999)
- Language:
- English
- ISBN-10:
- 1859284426
- ISBN-13:
- 978-1859284421