European Cities in the Modern Era, 1850-1914

Inbunden, Engelska, 2012

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In European Cities in the Modern Era, 1850-1914 Friedrich Lenger analyses the demographic and economic preconditions of European urbanization, compares the extent to which Europe’s cities were characterized by heterogeneity with respect to the social, national and religious composition of its population and asks in which way differences resulting from this heterogeneity were resolved either peacefully or violently.Using this general perspective and extending the scope by including Eastern and Southern Europe the dominant view of Europe’s prewar cities as islands of modernity is challenged and the ubiquity of urban violence established as a central analytical problem.

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Utgivningsdatum:2012-08-17
Mått:155 x 235 x 26 mm
Vikt:666 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Studies in Central European Histories
Antal sidor:312
Förlag:Brill
ISBN:9789004233386

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Friedrich Lenger, Dr. phil. (1985), Düsseldorf University, is Professor for Modern History at Giessen University. He has published numerous monographs, collected volumes and articles on European and North American social history since 1800 and has been Visiting Professor at St Antony’s College (Oxford) and Georgetown University.

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AcknowledgementsList of AbbreviationsIntroductionI. Capitals of the Nineteenth Century1. London at the time of the Great Exhibition of 18512. The Rebuilding of Paris under Haussmann3. Paris at the time of the International Exposition of 1867II.The Urbanization of Europe in the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century and its Economic and Demographic Background1. Elements of Europe`s Urbanization 1850-19142. The Demographic Backdrop3. The Economic Sources of Urbanization4. Urban Systems and City-Country RelationsIII. Migration, Urban Society, and Urban Space1. Migration and Urban Society2. Urban Societies and Urban Space: Fragmentation and Heterogeneity?IV. Housing Conditions and Housing Reform1. Housing Conditions in European Cities during the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century – A Comparative Perspective2. Ideas and Initiatives for ReformV. The Construction of the Modern City: Self-Government, Urban Infrastructure, and Planning in the Epoch of Municipal Socialism1. Structures of Communal Self-Governance in Europe, 1850-19142. The Modern City: Healthy and Stench-Free?3. The Modern City: Bright, Fast, and Well-Planned?4. The Modern City: Solicitous and Social?5. Municipal Socialism: Significance and LimitsVI. Culture, Communication, Critique1. Middle Class High Culture, Workers` Culture, Mass Culture2. Mass Media, Perceptions of the City, and the Critique of City LifeVII. The Struggle for Urban Space1. Men and Women, Above and Below, Day and Night2. Revolutions and Demonstrations, Pogroms and TerrorismBibliographyIndex