Germanys Other Modernity - Munich and the Making of Metropolis, 18951930

Informationen zum Autor Leif Jerram is Lecturer in Urban History at the University of Manchester Klappentext This book is about what it meant to build a city in Germany at the turn of the twentieth century. It explores the physical spaces and mental attitudes that conditioned beliefs about the past and expectations for the future in the crucial German generations that shaped the young Reich, fought the Great War, and experienced the Weimar Republic. Zusammenfassung This book is about what it meant to build a city in Germany at the turn of the twentieth century. It explores the physical spaces and mental attitudes that conditioned beliefs about the past and expectations for the future in the crucial German generations that shaped the young Reich! fought the Great War! and experienced the Weimar Republic. -- . Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction1. Großstadtangst: disorder and discomfort in the metropolis2. Großstadtfreude: joy in the metropolis3. The interior world of modernity4. The production of space and the execution of social policy Conclusion: Germany, space and modernityBibliographyIndex

Product details

• Authors: Leif Jerram, Jerram Leif
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.07.2014
• EAN: 9780719095382
• ISBN: 978-0-7190-9538-2
• No. of pages: 240
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; HISTORY / Europe / Germany, European History, Germany, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, c 1914 to c 1918 (including WW1), c 1919 to c 1939 (Inter-war period), c 1918 to c 1939 (Inter-war period), C 1900 - C 1914, c 1900 to c 1909, c 1914 to c 1918 (World War One period)