Author: Anthony McElligott
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9780415121156
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
This book provides a study of the social and cultural history of Germany through written, visual and oral sources during this important period.
The German Urban Experience, 1900-1945
Author: Anthony McElligott
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9780415121156
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
This book provides a study of the social and cultural history of Germany through written, visual and oral sources during this important period.
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9780415121156
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
This book provides a study of the social and cultural history of Germany through written, visual and oral sources during this important period.
The German Urban Experience
Author: Anthony McElligott
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136162364
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
No competition - nothing in existance which looks at the phenomenon of the German city in the early c20th Draws fascinating conclusions about the influence of the Nazis on the German city Includes a wide variety of source material including 94 illustrations Books on early c2oth Germany sell very well indeed
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136162364
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
No competition - nothing in existance which looks at the phenomenon of the German city in the early c20th Draws fascinating conclusions about the influence of the Nazis on the German city Includes a wide variety of source material including 94 illustrations Books on early c2oth Germany sell very well indeed
Bavarian Tourism and the Modern World, 1800–1950
Author: Adam T. Rosenbaum
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108685609
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 477
Book Description
During the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the tourism industry of Bavaria consistently promoted an image of 'grounded modernity'. This romanticized version of the present reconciled continuity with change, tradition with progress, and nature with science. In an era of rapid and unprecedented change, simultaneously nostalgic and progressive grounded modernity produced an illusion of continuity. It helped make the experience of modernity more tangible by linking impersonal and abstract ideas, like national identity, with familiar experiences and concrete sights. Bavarian Tourism and the Modern World, 1800–1950 examines the connections between Bavarian tourism and the turbulent experience of German modernity during this period. It gauges Germany's long and often unsettling journey to modernity using Bavarian tourism and travel as a lens. Closely examining guidebooks, brochures, postcards and other tourist propaganda, Adam Rosenbaum argues that by pointing visitors to the past, tourism illuminated the present, and produced signposts to the future.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108685609
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 477
Book Description
During the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the tourism industry of Bavaria consistently promoted an image of 'grounded modernity'. This romanticized version of the present reconciled continuity with change, tradition with progress, and nature with science. In an era of rapid and unprecedented change, simultaneously nostalgic and progressive grounded modernity produced an illusion of continuity. It helped make the experience of modernity more tangible by linking impersonal and abstract ideas, like national identity, with familiar experiences and concrete sights. Bavarian Tourism and the Modern World, 1800–1950 examines the connections between Bavarian tourism and the turbulent experience of German modernity during this period. It gauges Germany's long and often unsettling journey to modernity using Bavarian tourism and travel as a lens. Closely examining guidebooks, brochures, postcards and other tourist propaganda, Adam Rosenbaum argues that by pointing visitors to the past, tourism illuminated the present, and produced signposts to the future.
Company Towns
Author: M. Borges
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137024674
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 393
Book Description
Company towns first appeared in Europe and North America with the industrial revolution and followed the expansion of capital to frontier societies, colonies, and new nations. Their common feature was the degree of company control and supervision, reaching beyond the workplace into workers' private and social lives. Major sites of urban experimentation, paternalism, and welfare practices, company towns were also contested terrain of negotiations and confrontations between capital and labor. Looking at historical and contemporary examples from Europe, the Americas, Africa, and Asia, this book explores company towns' global reach and adaptability to diverse geographical, political, and cultural contexts.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137024674
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 393
Book Description
Company towns first appeared in Europe and North America with the industrial revolution and followed the expansion of capital to frontier societies, colonies, and new nations. Their common feature was the degree of company control and supervision, reaching beyond the workplace into workers' private and social lives. Major sites of urban experimentation, paternalism, and welfare practices, company towns were also contested terrain of negotiations and confrontations between capital and labor. Looking at historical and contemporary examples from Europe, the Americas, Africa, and Asia, this book explores company towns' global reach and adaptability to diverse geographical, political, and cultural contexts.
Representing Berlin
Author: Dorothy Rowe
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351551388
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
Berlin, city of Bertolt Brecht, Marlene Dietrich, cabaret and German Expressionism, a city identified with a female sexuality - at first alluring but then dangerous. In this fascinating study, Dorothy Rowe turns our attention to Berlin as a sexual landscape. She investigates the processes by which women and femininity played a prominent role in depictions of the city at the end of the nineteenth and into the early twentieth centuries. She explores how in the aftermath of the horrors of World War I, increasing anxieties about the liberation of women and the supposed increase of female prostitution contributed to the demonization of the city not as a focus of desire and pleasure but rather as one of alienation and anxiety.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351551388
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
Berlin, city of Bertolt Brecht, Marlene Dietrich, cabaret and German Expressionism, a city identified with a female sexuality - at first alluring but then dangerous. In this fascinating study, Dorothy Rowe turns our attention to Berlin as a sexual landscape. She investigates the processes by which women and femininity played a prominent role in depictions of the city at the end of the nineteenth and into the early twentieth centuries. She explores how in the aftermath of the horrors of World War I, increasing anxieties about the liberation of women and the supposed increase of female prostitution contributed to the demonization of the city not as a focus of desire and pleasure but rather as one of alienation and anxiety.
Love at Last Sight
Author: Tyler Carrington
Publisher:
ISBN: 0190917768
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 265
Book Description
Framed by the life, murder, and sensational trial over an enterprising seamstress, Love at Last Sight tells a history of dating in Berlin, where the romantic technologies and opportunities of the turn-of-the-century city--such as missed connections and newspaper personal ads--offered men and women on the margins the best shot at finding love but exposed them to tremendous risk.
Publisher:
ISBN: 0190917768
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 265
Book Description
Framed by the life, murder, and sensational trial over an enterprising seamstress, Love at Last Sight tells a history of dating in Berlin, where the romantic technologies and opportunities of the turn-of-the-century city--such as missed connections and newspaper personal ads--offered men and women on the margins the best shot at finding love but exposed them to tremendous risk.
Cities and the Making of Modern Europe, 1750-1914
Author: Andrew Lees
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 052183936X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 267
Book Description
A survey of urbanization and the making of modern Europe from the mid-eighteenth century to the First World War.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 052183936X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 267
Book Description
A survey of urbanization and the making of modern Europe from the mid-eighteenth century to the First World War.
Weimar Germany
Author: Anthony McElligott
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199280061
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 343
Book Description
This introduction to the history of Weimar Germany challenges readers to rethink preconceived ideas of the republic and throws new light on important areas such as constitutional and social reform, Jewish life, gender and cultural developments.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199280061
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 343
Book Description
This introduction to the history of Weimar Germany challenges readers to rethink preconceived ideas of the republic and throws new light on important areas such as constitutional and social reform, Jewish life, gender and cultural developments.
The Politics of Iconoclasm
Author: James Noyes
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 0857722883
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 251
Book Description
From false idols and graven images to the tombs of kings and the shrines of capitalism, the targeted destruction of cities, sacred sites and artefacts for religious, political or nationalistic reasons is central to our cultural legacy. This book examines the different traditions of image-breaking in Christianity and Islam as well as their development into nominally secular movements and paints a vivid, scholarly picture of a culture of destruction encompassing Protestantism, Wahhabism, and Nationalism. Beginning with a comparative account of Calvinist Geneva and Wahhabi Mecca, The Politics of Iconoclasm explores the religious and political agendas behind acts of image-breaking and their relation to nationhood and state-building. From sixteenth-century Geneva to urban developments in Mecca today, The Politics of Iconoclasm explores the history of image-breaking, the culture of violence and its paradoxical roots in the desire for renewal. Examining these dynamics of nationhood, technology, destruction and memory, a historical journey is described in which the temple is razed and replaced by the machine.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 0857722883
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 251
Book Description
From false idols and graven images to the tombs of kings and the shrines of capitalism, the targeted destruction of cities, sacred sites and artefacts for religious, political or nationalistic reasons is central to our cultural legacy. This book examines the different traditions of image-breaking in Christianity and Islam as well as their development into nominally secular movements and paints a vivid, scholarly picture of a culture of destruction encompassing Protestantism, Wahhabism, and Nationalism. Beginning with a comparative account of Calvinist Geneva and Wahhabi Mecca, The Politics of Iconoclasm explores the religious and political agendas behind acts of image-breaking and their relation to nationhood and state-building. From sixteenth-century Geneva to urban developments in Mecca today, The Politics of Iconoclasm explores the history of image-breaking, the culture of violence and its paradoxical roots in the desire for renewal. Examining these dynamics of nationhood, technology, destruction and memory, a historical journey is described in which the temple is razed and replaced by the machine.
Weimar Cities
Author: John Bingham
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135907919
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 206
Book Description
Weimar Cities explores Germany's efforts to come to grips with its great cities after World War I; by extension the book measures the feasibility of the postwar experiment that was the Weimar Republic. The book focuses particularly on the weakness, both local and national, that resulted from the disjunct between the cities’ perceived and actual power.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135907919
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 206
Book Description
Weimar Cities explores Germany's efforts to come to grips with its great cities after World War I; by extension the book measures the feasibility of the postwar experiment that was the Weimar Republic. The book focuses particularly on the weakness, both local and national, that resulted from the disjunct between the cities’ perceived and actual power.