Endangered cities : : military power and urban societies in the era of the world wars /

Endangered cities : : military power and urban societies in the era of the world wars / / edited by Marcus Funck and Roger Chickering.

Any war wreaks havoc on cities as well as the countryside. Endangered Cities explores specifically the urban experience in twentieth-century war-torn Europe. Volume contributors draw on the history of cities in seven European countries between 1914 and 1945 in which in almost every instance the boun...

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Superior document:Studies in Central European histories ; Volume 33
TeilnehmendeR:
Funck, Marcus,
Chickering, Roger, 1942-
Place / Publishing House:Boston ;, Leiden : : Brill Academic Publishers, Inc.,, [2004]
©2004
Year of Publication:2004
Language:English
Series:Studies in Central European histories ; Volume 33.
Physical Description:1 online resource.
Notes:Includes index.
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Table of Contents:
  • Notes on Contributors
  • List of Illustrations
  • Introduction: Endangered Cities, Marcus Funck & Roger Chickering
  • Part I. War and the Vulnerability of Urban Centers
  • 1. Between Veiling and Unveiling: Modern Camouflage and the City as a Theater of War, Davide Deriu
  • 2. Military Thinking and the Urban Question: Industrial Decentralization in France between the Wars, Efi Markou
  • 3. Preservation by Dispersion: Civilian Evacuations and the City in Germany and France, 1939-1945, Julia S. Torrie
  • Part II. The Burdens of Urban Occupation
  • 4. Controlling Urban Society during World War I: Cooperation between Belgian Authorities and the Forces of Military Occupation, Benoît Majerus
  • 5. Reweaving the Urban Fabric: Multiethnicity and Occupation in Łodź, 1914-1918, Andreas R. Hofmann
  • 6. The Leningrad Blockade, 1941-1944: Life in the Fortress of the Rear, Eva-Maria Stolberg
  • Part III. Urban Rituals of War
  • 7. War Enacted: Popular Theater and Collective Identities in Berlin, 1914-1918, Martin Baumeister
  • 8. Death in Freiburg, 1914-1918, Roger Chickering
  • 9. The Trading City: Black Markets in Berlin during World War II, Malte Zierenberg
  • Part IV. War and Urban Reconstruction
  • 10. City Planning as an Instrument of the National Socialist "Germanization" Policy: Hubert Ritter's Development Plan for Luxembourg, Guy Thewes
  • 11. Whose History is "Our" History? The Influence of Naval Power on Sevastopol's Reconstruction, 1944-1953, Karl D. Qualls
  • Index.

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