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Matthew Jefferies - Politics and Culture in Wilhelmine Germany, Inbunden

Inbunden, Engelska, 1995

Politics and Culture in Wilhelmine Germany

The Case of Industrial Architecture

Av Matthew Jefferies

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- A valuable resource for students taking specialist options on Imperial Germany or the origins of modern architecture and design.This original book explores the relationship between politics and culture in turn-of-the-century Germany through the unusual medium of industrial architecture, which for a time brought together the disparate worlds of politics, art and commerce. It focuses on the efforts of reformers to improve the quality and character of the industrial workplace during the period when Germany was overtaking Britain as Europe's leading manufacturing power.
Produktinformation
  • Utgivningsdatum: 1995-08-01
  • Mått: 138 x 216 x 20 mm
  • Vikt: 697 g
  • Format: Inbunden
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 284
  • Förlag: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
  • ISBN: 9780854969456
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Matthew Jefferies Lecturer in German History,University of Manchester

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'Sheds considerable light on the character of the Wilhelmine bourgeoisie and its relationship to the economic, social, political and cultural features of Germany's 'modernization' in the early years of the 20th century.'Joan Campbell, Department of History, University of Toronto'Architectural history set in an economic and social framework is all too rare: the present work is to be doubly welcomed, for it is also both knowledgeable and sensitive, and it makes fascinating reading.[...]The study casts a welcome light on the 'other' Germany, cultured, humane, progressive, which is too often overlaid by the coarse Prussian militarism of that age.'Business History'Jeffries's book is a significant contribution to our understanding of the complex intersection of art, industry and German cultural reform. His thorough and interdisciplinary research will make his study useful to scholars interested in architecture, bourgeois reform industrial relations, and economic structural ch

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