Struggle for the Streets of Berlin - Politics, Consumption, and Urban Space, 1914-1945

Contests over Berlin's streets in the interwar period reveal the fragility of consumer capitalism, urban order, and liberal democracy.

List of contents

Acknowledgements; List of figures; Introduction: streets of desire and discontent; 1. Paper revolutions: urban advertising in the aftermath of the First World War; 2. Commerce turned inside out: street hawkers, shopkeepers, and the moral geography of consumption during the inflation; 3. Crowd control: traffic, spectacle, and demonstrations during the 'golden twenties'; 4. Fortress shops and militarized streets: looting in depression-era Berlin; 5. When rogues become regulators: 'coordination 'of the streets under the new Nazi regime; 6. Visions of a Nazi world capital: urban 'revitalization' from the Christmas market to Kristallnacht; Epilogue: eradicating Berlin: urban destruction from Germania to the Second World War; Bibliography; Index.

About the author

Molly Loberg of California Polytechnic State University, is a Fulbright Scholar and Humboldt Fellow. She has won several awards for her research, including the History Article Prize (2013) from the Berkshire Conference of Women Historians.

Summary

Molly Loberg reconstructs the vibrant, volatile, and lost topography of interwar Berlin. She charts the contests for Berlin's streets during the Weimar Republic and Third Reich and their transformation into a means of communication, lens of perception, and stage of action for both commercial and political life.

Product details

• Authors: Molly Loberg, Molly (California Polytechnic State Univer Loberg, Molly (California Polytechnic State University) Loberg, Molly Jean Loberg, LOBERG MOLLY
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.04.2018
• EAN: 9781108417648
• ISBN: 978-1-108-41764-8
• No. of pages: 338
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political system; Berlin, European History, Germany, HISTORY / Europe / General, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, Early 20th century c 1900 to c 1950, c 1914 to c 1918 (including WW1), c 1939 to c 1945 (including WW2), c 1918 to c 1939 (Inter-war period), Genocide & ethnic cleansing, Genocide and ethnic cleansing, Political control and freedoms, Political Control & Freedoms