The City in Central Europe: Culture and Society from 1800 to the Present

ISBN-13: 9781138338159 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 276 str.

Malcolm Gee; Tim Kirk; Jill Steward

Opis

First published in 1999, this volume explores how the cities of central Europe, among them Berlin, Budapest, Hamburg, Vienna and Prague, went through a period of phenomenal growth during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Spis treści

1. A City in Distress?: Paul Bröcker and the New Architecture of Hamburg, 1900-1918. Matthew Jeffires. 2. From the Garden to the Factory: Urban Visions in Czechoslovakia Between the Wars. Jane Pavitt. 3. Networks and Boundries: German Art Centres and Their Satellites, 1815-1914. Robin Lenman. 4. The Berlin Art World, 1918-1933. Malcolm Gee. 5. Cultural Institutions as Urban Innovations: the Czech Lands, Poland and the Eastern Baltic, 1750-1900. Lud’a Klusáková. 6. Castles, Cabarets and Cartoons: Claims on Polishness in Kraków around 1905. David Crowley. 7. ‘Gruss aus Wien’: Urban Tourism in Austria-Hungary before the First World War. Jill Steward. 8. Big-City Jews: Jewish Big City – the Dialectics of Jewish Assimilation in Vienna c. 1900. Steven Beller. 9. Popular Culture and Politics in Imperial Vienna. Tim Kirk. 10. ‘Making a Living from Disgrace’: the Politics of Prostitution, Female Proverty and Urban Gender Codes in Budapest and Vienna, 1860-1920. Susan Zimmermann. 11. Coping with Social and Economic Crisis: the Viennese Experience, 1929-1933. Gerhard Melinz. 12. Walter Ruttmann’s Berlin: Symphony of a City: Traffic-Mindedness and the City in Interwarr Germany. Anthony McElligott. 13. Wim Wenders and Berlin. Sabine Jaccaud.

O autorze

Malcolm Gee, Tim Kirk, Jill Steward