Mastery and Lost Illusions : Space and Time in the Modernization of Eastern and Central Europe /

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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 th...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Borodziej, Wlodzimierz, Holubec, Stanislav, Puttkamer, Joachim
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: München : Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag GmbH, 2014.
Edición:2014.
Colección:Europas Osten im 20. Jahrhundert.
Temas:
Urbanization > Europe, Central > Congresses.
Urbanization > Europe, Eastern > Congresses.
Urbanisation > Europe centrale > Congrès.
Urbanisation > Europe de l'Est > Congrès.
Urbanization
Central Europe
Eastern Europe
Conference papers and proceedings
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction; Part I: Key Perspectives; Mastery of Space and the Crises of Modernity in Central and Eastern Europe; A Moving Target or a Lost Illusion? East Central Europe in Pursuit of the West in Two Globalization Phases; Part II: The Ruralization of Urbanization; Image and Reality of a Splitting Country: The Case of Hungary; The Ostrava Industrial Agglomeration in the First Half of the Twentieth Century: Where the Urban Countryside met the Rural Town; The Ruralization of Bucharest and Warsaw in the First Post-War Decade.
  • Nowa Huta, Eisenhüttenstadt and Ostrava-Poruba in Early State Socialism: The Proletarianization and Ruralization of New CitiesChanging the Cityscapes: The Ruralization of Yugoslav Towns in Early Socialism; Ruralization, Urban Villagers, and Perceptions of Migration in Hungary during 'De-Stalinization' (Budapest, Sztálinváros); Part III: Space and the Crises of Modernity; Integration or Decentralization? The Construction of Railways and Waterways in Cisleithania; The Sea(side) Borderland of Modernity: Rostock, Klaipe? da, and Tallinn from the 1870s to the 1920s.
  • "We bring order, discipline, Western European democracy, and culture to this land of former oriental chaos and disorder." Czech Perceptions of Sub-Carpathian Rus and its Modernization in the 1920sList of Contributors; Index.

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