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Author : Andrew Lees
Release : 2002
Genre : Architecture
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Book Rating : 586/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Cities, Sin, and Social Reform in Imperial Germany by : Andrew Lees
Download or read book Cities, Sin, and Social Reform in Imperial Germany written by Andrew Lees. This book was released on 2002. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An important examination of the colorful histories of urbanization and social reform in Imperial Germany
Author : M. Thompson
Release : 2009-08-31
Genre : Science
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Book Rating : 054/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Fleeing the City by : M. Thompson
Download or read book Fleeing the City written by M. Thompson. This book was released on 2009-08-31. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays explores the phenomenon of antiurbanism: the antipathy, fear, and hatred of the city. Antiurbanism has been a pervasive counter-discourse to modernity and urbanization especially since the beginning of industrialism and the dawning of modern life. Most of the attention on modernity has been focused on urbanization and its consequences. But as the essays collected here demonstrate, antiurbanism is an equally important reality as it can be seen as playing a crucial role in cultural identity, in the formation of the self within the context of modernity, as well as in the root of many forms of conservative politics and cultural movements.
Author : Sven Oliver Müller
Release : 2013
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 007/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Imperial Germany Revisited by : Sven Oliver Müller
Download or read book Imperial Germany Revisited written by Sven Oliver Müller. This book was released on 2013. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The German Empire, its structure, its dynamic development between 1871 and 1918, and its legacy, have been the focus of lively international debate that is showing signs of further intensification as we approach the centenary of the outbreak of World War I. Based on recent work and scholarly arguments about continuities and discontinuities in modern German history from Bismarck to Hitler, well-known experts broadly explore four themes: the positioning of the Bismarckian Empire in the course of German history; the relationships between society, politics and culture in a period of momentous transformations; the escalation of military violence in Germany's colonies before 1914 and later in two world wars; and finally the situation of Germany within the international system as a major political and economic player. The perspectives presented in this volume have already stimulated further argument and will be of interest to anyone looking for orientation in this field of research.
Author : Jill Suzanne Smith
Release : 2014-05-15
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 694/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Berlin Coquette by : Jill Suzanne Smith
Download or read book Berlin Coquette written by Jill Suzanne Smith. This book was released on 2014-05-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the late nineteenth century the city of Berlin developed such a reputation for lawlessness and sexual licentiousness that it came to be known as the "Whore of Babylon." Out of this reputation for debauchery grew an unusually rich discourse around prostitution. In Berlin Coquette, Jill Suzanne Smith shows how this discourse transcended the usual clichés about prostitutes and actually explored complex visions of alternative moralities or sexual countercultures including the "New Morality" articulated by feminist radicals, lesbian love, and the "New Woman." Combining extensive archival research with close readings of a broad spectrum of texts and images from the late Wilhelmine and Weimar periods, Smith recovers a surprising array of productive discussions about extramarital sexuality, women’s financial autonomy, and respectability. She highlights in particular the figure of the cocotte (Kokotte), a specific type of prostitute who capitalized on the illusion of respectable or upstanding womanhood and therefore confounded easy categorization. By exploring the semantic connections between the figure of the cocotte and the act of flirtation (of being coquette), Smith’s work presents flirtation as a type of social interaction through which both prostitutes and non-prostitutes in Imperial and Weimar Berlin could express extramarital sexual desire and agency.
Author : Andrew Lees
Release : 2007-12-13
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 36X/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Cities and the Making of Modern Europe, 1750-1914 by : Andrew Lees
Download or read book Cities and the Making of Modern Europe, 1750-1914 written by Andrew Lees. This book was released on 2007-12-13. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A survey of urbanization and the making of modern Europe from the mid-eighteenth century to the First World War.
