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Author : Roger Chickering
Release : 2007-02-08
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 560/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Great War and Urban Life in Germany by : Roger Chickering
Download or read book The Great War and Urban Life in Germany written by Roger Chickering. This book was released on 2007-02-08. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Roger Chickering offers the most comprehensive history ever written of a German city at war.
Author : Roger Chickering
Release : 2014-07-10
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 689/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Imperial Germany and the Great War, 1914–1918 by : Roger Chickering
Download or read book Imperial Germany and the Great War, 1914–1918 written by Roger Chickering. This book was released on 2014-07-10. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book represents the most comprehensive history of Germany during the First World War.
Author : Luc Verpoest
Release : 2020-12-08
Genre : Architecture
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Book Rating : 500/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Revival After the Great War by : Luc Verpoest
Download or read book Revival After the Great War written by Luc Verpoest. This book was released on 2020-12-08. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The challenges of post-war recovery from social and political reform to architectural design In the months and years immediately following the First World War, the many (European) countries that had formed its battleground were confronted with daunting challenges. These challenges varied according to the countries' earlier role and degree of involvement in the war but were without exception enormous. The contributors to this book analyse how this was not only a matter of rebuilding ravaged cities and destroyed infrastructure, but also of repairing people’s damaged bodies and upended daily lives, and rethinking and reforming societal, economic and political structures. These processes took place against the backdrop of mass mourning and remembrance, political violence and economic crisis. At the same time, the post-war tabula rasa offered many opportunities for innovation in various areas of society, from social and political reform to architectural design. The wide scope of post-war recovery and revival is reflected in the different sections of this book: rebuild, remember, repair, and reform. It offers insights into post-war revival in Western European countries such as Belgium, France, the United Kingdom, Germany, Portugal, Spain, and Italy, as well as into how their efforts were perceived outside of Europe, for instance in Argentina and the United States.
Author : Jeffry M. Diefendorf
Release : 1993-06-24
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 091/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis In the Wake of War by : Jeffry M. Diefendorf
Download or read book In the Wake of War written by Jeffry M. Diefendorf. This book was released on 1993-06-24. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1945 Germany's cities lay in ruins, destroyed by Allied bombers `hat left major architectural monuments badly damaged and much of the housing stock reduced to rubble. At the war's end, observers thought that it would take forty years to rebuild, but by the late 1950s West Germany's cities had risen anew. The housing crisis had been overcome and virtually all important monuments reconstructed, and the cities had reclaimed their characteristic identities. Everywhere there was a mixture of old and new: historic churches and town halls stood alongside new housing and department stores; ancient street layouts were crossed or encircled by wide arteries; old city centers were balanced by garden suburbs laid out according to modern planning principles. In this book, Diefendorf examines the questions raised by this remarkable feat of urban reconstruction. He explains who was primarily responsible, what accounted for the speed of rebuilding, and how priorities were set and decisions acted upon. He argues that in such crucial areas as architectural style, urban planning, historic preservation, and housing policy, the Germans drew upon personnel, ideas, institutions, and practical experiences from the Nazi and pre-Nazi periods. Diefendorf shows how the rebuilding of West Germany's cities after 1945 can only be understood in terms of long-term continuities in urban development.
Author : Brian Ladd
Release : 1990
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 152/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Urban Planning and Civic Order in Germany, 1860-1914 by : Brian Ladd
Download or read book Urban Planning and Civic Order in Germany, 1860-1914 written by Brian Ladd. This book was released on 1990. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An integrated approach to the subject, exploring a wide variety of solutions to pest control problems, including the non-chemical. Information on chemicals and pesticide applications have been brought up-to-date and are accompanied by discussions of environmental factors and safety aspects. While the perspective is Australian, many of these pests are universal in their distribution. Some 280 illustrations (80 in color). A sound practical guide that deserves a bibliography. Describes the struggle of prosperous German bourgeois leaders to impose order on the tumultuous growth of the cities during the rapid industrialization in the decades before World War I. Part civic boosterism, part social reform, and heavily laced with politics, their theories and actions spawned modern urban planning. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
