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Book Description
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 boundaries between civilan and military powers collapse. Eleven original essays examine major phenomena during the urban war-time experience, including the effort to anticipate and defend against air attack, the burdens of siege and occupation, the rituals that developed around popular entertainment, black markets, the problems posed by death and destruction, and how cities devastated by war rose from the rubble to rebuild.
About the Author
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.
Endangered Cities: Military Power and Urban Societies in the Era of the World Wars (Studies in Central European Histories),Marcus Funck,Roger Chickering,Brill Academic Publishers,0391041967,20th century,Cities and towns,Europe,General,History,History: World,Interior Design - General,Military - Other,Sociology,Sociology - Urban,World War, 1914-1918,World War, 1939-1945
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