| Description |
1 online resource (vi, 257 pages) |
| Series |
Europas Osten im 20. Jahrhundert ; Bd. 5 = Eastern Europe in the twentieth century ; v. 5 |
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Europas Osten im 20. Jahrhundert ; Bd. 5.
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| Contents |
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction / Holubec, Stanislav ; Borodziej, Włodzimierz ; von Puttkamer, Joachim -- Mastery of Space and the Crises of Modernity in Central and Eastern Europe / von Puttkamer, Joachim -- A Moving Target or a Lost Illusion? East Central Europe in Pursuit of the West in Two Globalization Phases / Kochanowicz, Jacek -- Image and Reality of a Splitting Country: The Case of Hungary / Gyáni, Gábor -- The Ostrava Industrial Agglomeration in the First Half of the Twentieth Century: Where the Urban Countryside met the Rural Town / Jemelka, Martin -- The Ruralization of Bucharest and Warsaw in the First Post-War Decade / Brzostek, Błażej -- Nowa Huta, Eisenhüttenstadt and Ostrava-Poruba in Early State Socialism: The Proletarianization and Ruralization of New Cities / Jajeśniak-Quast, Dagmara -- Changing the Cityscapes: The Ruralization of Yugoslav Towns in Early Socialism / Dobrivojević, Ivana -- Ruralization, Urban Villagers and Perceptions of Migration in Hungary during 'De-Stalinization' (Budapest, Sztálinváros) / Horváth, Sándor -- Integration or Decentralization? The Construction of Railways and Waterways in Cisleithania / Jakubec, Ivan -- The Sea(side) Borderland of Modernity: Rostock, Klaipe˙ da and Tallinn from the 1870s to the 1920s / Kochanowski, Jerzy -- "We bring order, discipline, Western European democracy, and culture to this land of former oriental chaos and disorder." / Holubec, Stanislav -- List of Contributors -- Index |
| Summary |
This volume highlights the specific experiences and challenges of modernity in twentieth-century Eastern and Central Europe. Contributors ask how spatial and temporal conditions shaped the region's transformation from a rural to an urban, industrialized society in this period and investigate the state's role in the mastery of space, particularly in the context of state socialism |
| Notes |
"Second annual conference in June 2012, focus on problems of modernity in twentieth-century Eastern and Central Europe." |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Urbanization -- Europe, Eastern -- Congresses
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Urbanization -- Europe, Central -- Congresses
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HISTORY / Europe / Eastern.
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Urbanization
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Eastern Europe
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Central Europe
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| Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Borodziej, Włodzimierz, editor
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Holubec, Stanislav, editor.
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Puttkamer, Joachim von, editor.
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| ISBN |
3110364204 |
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9783110364200 |
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311036431X |
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9783110364316 |
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