Endangered Cities

Military Power and Urban Societies in the Era of the World Wars
Erscheinungsjahr 2004
ISBN: 978-0-391-04196-7
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 33, 198 Seiten, Format (B × H): 163 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 481 g

Reihe: Studies in Central European Histories

This volume explores the urban experience of war in twentieth-century Europe. Eleven essays draw from seven European countries to examine the impact of strategic bombing, occupation, urban rituals of war, and urban reconstruction in the wake of war.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Funck, Marcus

Chickering, Roger

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Militärgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Militärwesen
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Stadt- und Regionalsoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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 Lodz, 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

Über Autor(innen)

Marcus Funck, Ph.D. (2003) in history, Technische Universität Berlin, is Wissenschaftlicher Assistent at Philipps-Universität Marburg. He has published on the history of the German nobility and the military in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, as well as on European urban history.

Roger Chickering, Ph.D. Stanford University (1968), is professor of history at the BMW Center for German and European Studies at Georgetown University. He has published studies on the history of Imperial Germany and Germany during the First World War.