German Cities and Bourgeois Modernism, 1890-1924

Zusatztext Maiken Umbach has written a brilliant, provocative and engaging study of bourgeois modernism that will make a substantial impact upon the scholarship of modern German history and culture. Informationen zum Autor Maiken Umbach teaches modern European history at the University of Manchester and has held fellowships and visiting appointments at the University of Cambridge, the Australian National University, Harvard, the Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, and University College London. Her principal research interest concerns the changing role and configuration of regional identities and place-based politics in German and European history, from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries. She has published a number of works in the field, including Federalism and Enlightenment in Germany, 1740-1806 (2000), German Federalism: Past, Present, Future (as editor, 2002) and Vernacular Modernism: Heimat, Globalization and the Built Environment (2004, co-edited with Bernd Hüppauf). She is also joint editor of the journal German History. A study of the distinctive brand of modernism that emerged in late 19th century Germany, illustrating through a series of analyses of key buildings and urban spaces how bourgeios modernism shaped the infrastructure of social and political life in the early twentieth century and transformed German cities. Zusammenfassung A study of the distinctive brand of modernism that emerged in late 19th century Germany, illustrating through a series of analyses of key buildings and urban spaces how bourgeios modernism shaped the infrastructure of social and political life in the early twentieth century and transformed German cities.

Product details

• Authors: Maiken Umbach, Maiken (Senior Lecturer in Modern History Umbach, Umbach Maiken
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.08.2009
• EAN: 9780199557394
• ISBN: 978-0-19-955739-4
• No. of pages: 288
• Subjects: Non-fiction book; European History, HISTORY / Europe / General, 20th Century, ARCHITECTURE / History / General, ART / History / Modern (late 19th Century to 1945), DESIGN / History & Criticism, DESIGN / Graphic Arts / Commercial & Corporate, History of Art, History of art & design styles: from c 1900 -, Industrial / commercial art & design, history of design, History of Architecture, C 1900 - C 1914, c 1900 to c 1909, Design, Industrial and commercial arts, illustration