Buchbeschreibung Hardcover. Zustand: new. Hardcover. Three Cities after Hitler compares how three prewar German cities shared decades of postwar development under three competing post-Nazi regimes: Frankfurt in capitalist West Germany, Leipzig in communist East Germany, and Wroclaw (formerly Breslau) in communist Poland. Each city was rebuilt according to two intertwined modern trends. First, certain local edifices were chosen to be resurrected as "sacred sites" to redeem the national story after Nazism. Second, these tokens of a reimagined past were staged against the hegemony of modernist architecture and planning, which wiped out much of whatever was left of the urban landscape that had survived the war. All three cities thus emerged with simplified architectural narratives, whose historically layered complexities only survived in fragments where this twofold "redemptive reconstruction" after Nazism had proven less vigorous, sometimes because local citizens took action to save and appropriate them. Transcending both the Iron Curtain and freshly homogenized nation-states, three cities under three rival regimes shared a surprisingly common history before, during, and after Hitler - in terms of both top-down planning policies and residents' spontaneous efforts to make home out of their city as its shape shifted around them. AUTHOR: Andrew Demshuk is associate professor of history at American University in Washington, DC. His previous books include Bowling for Communism: Urban Ingenuity at the End of East Germany, Demolition on Karl Marx Square: Cultural Barbarism and the People's State in 1968, and The Lost German East: Forced Migration and the Politics of Memory. Compares how three prewar German cities shared decades of post-war development under three competing post-Nazi regimes. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability. Bestandsnummer des Verk�ufers 9780822946977

Weitere Informationen zu diesem Verk�ufer | Verk�ufer kontaktieren

Neu kaufen

EUR 85,38

W�hrung umrechnen

In den Warenkorb

Versand: EUR 43,20

Von Vereinigtes K�nigreich nach USA

Versandziele, Kosten & Dauer

Foto des Verk�ufers

Three Cities After Hitler (Hardcover)

Andrew Demshuk

Verlag: University of Pittsburgh Press, Pittsburgh PA (2021)

ISBN 10: 0822946971 ISBN 13: 9780822946977

Neu Hardcover Anzahl: 1

Anbieter:

AussieBookSeller
(Truganina, VIC, Australien)

Bewertung

Bewertung:

Buchbeschreibung Hardcover. Zustand: new. Hardcover. Three Cities after Hitler compares how three prewar German cities shared decades of postwar development under three competing post-Nazi regimes: Frankfurt in capitalist West Germany, Leipzig in communist East Germany, and Wroclaw (formerly Breslau) in communist Poland. Each city was rebuilt according to two intertwined modern trends. First, certain local edifices were chosen to be resurrected as "sacred sites" to redeem the national story after Nazism. Second, these tokens of a reimagined past were staged against the hegemony of modernist architecture and planning, which wiped out much of whatever was left of the urban landscape that had survived the war. All three cities thus emerged with simplified architectural narratives, whose historically layered complexities only survived in fragments where this twofold "redemptive reconstruction" after Nazism had proven less vigorous, sometimes because local citizens took action to save and appropriate them. Transcending both the Iron Curtain and freshly homogenized nation-states, three cities under three rival regimes shared a surprisingly common history before, during, and after Hitler - in terms of both top-down planning policies and residents' spontaneous efforts to make home out of their city as its shape shifted around them. AUTHOR: Andrew Demshuk is associate professor of history at American University in Washington, DC. His previous books include Bowling for Communism: Urban Ingenuity at the End of East Germany, Demolition on Karl Marx Square: Cultural Barbarism and the People's State in 1968, and The Lost German East: Forced Migration and the Politics of Memory. Compares how three prewar German cities shared decades of post-war development under three competing post-Nazi regimes. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability. Bestandsnummer des Verk�ufers 9780822946977

Weitere Informationen zu diesem Verk�ufer | Verk�ufer kontaktieren

Neu kaufen

EUR 105,48

W�hrung umrechnen

In den Warenkorb

Versand: EUR 34,59

Von Australien nach USA

Versandziele, Kosten & Dauer

Verwandte Artikel zu Three Cities After Hitler: Redemptive Reconstruction...

Three Cities After Hitler: Redemptive Reconstruction Across Cold War Borders (Russian and East European Studies) - Hardcover

Neu kaufen

Beste Suchergebnisse bei AbeBooks