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Around 1900 cities in Southern and Eastern Europe were persistently
labeled "backward" and "delayed." Allegedly, they had no
alternative but to follow the role model of the metropolises, of
London, Paris or Vienna. This edited volume fundamentally questions
this assumption. It shows that cities as diverse as Barcelona,
Berdyansk, Budapest, Lviv, Milan, Moscow, Prague, Warsaw and Zagreb
pursued their own agendas of modernization. In order to solve their
pressing problems with respect to urban planning and public health,
they searched for best practices abroad. The solutions they gleaned
from other cities were eclectic to fit the specific needs of a
given urban space and were thus often innovative. This applied
urban knowledge was generated through interurban networks and
multi-directional exchanges. Yet in the period around 1900, this
transnational municipalism often clashed with the forging of urban
and national identities, highlighting the tensions between the
universal and the local. This interurban perspective helps to
overcome nationalist perspectives in historiography as well as
outdated notions of "center and periphery." This volume will appeal
to scholars from a large number of disciplines, including urban
historians, historians of Eastern and Southern Europe, historians
of science and medicine, and scholars interested in transnational
connections.
The book explores the complex, multi-directional connections of the
"mobility/security nexus" in the re-ordering of states, empires,
and markets in historical perspective. Contributing to a vivid
academic debate, the book offers in-depth studies on how mobility
and security interplay in the emergence of order beyond the modern
state. While mobilities studies, migration studies and critical
security studies have focused on particular aspects of this
relationship, such as the construction of mobility as a political
threat or the role of infrastructure and security, we still lack
comprehensive conceptual frameworks to grasp the mobility/security
nexus and its role in social, political, and economic orders. With
authors drawn from sociology, International Relations, and various
historical disciplines, this transdisciplinary volume historicizes
the mobility-security nexus for the first time. In answering calls
for more studies that are both empirical and have historical depth,
the book presents substantial case studies on the nexus, ranging
from the late Middle Ages right up to the present-day, with
examples from the British Empire, the Russian Empire, the Habsburg
Empire, Papua New Guinea, Rome in the 1980s or the European Union
today. By doing so, the volume conceptualizes the mobility/security
nexus from a new, innovative perspective and, further, highlights
it as a prominent driving force for society and state development
in history. This book will be of much interest to researchers and
students of critical security studies, mobility studies, sociology,
history and political science.
Around 1900 cities in Southern and Eastern Europe were persistently
labeled "backward" and "delayed." Allegedly, they had no
alternative but to follow the role model of the metropolises, of
London, Paris or Vienna. This edited volume fundamentally questions
this assumption. It shows that cities as diverse as Barcelona,
Berdyansk, Budapest, Lviv, Milan, Moscow, Prague, Warsaw and Zagreb
pursued their own agendas of modernization. In order to solve their
pressing problems with respect to urban planning and public health,
they searched for best practices abroad. The solutions they gleaned
from other cities were eclectic to fit the specific needs of a
given urban space and were thus often innovative. This applied
urban knowledge was generated through interurban networks and
multi-directional exchanges. Yet in the period around 1900, this
transnational municipalism often clashed with the forging of urban
and national identities, highlighting the tensions between the
universal and the local. This interurban perspective helps to
overcome nationalist perspectives in historiography as well as
outdated notions of "center and periphery." This volume will appeal
to scholars from a large number of disciplines, including urban
historians, historians of Eastern and Southern Europe, historians
of science and medicine, and scholars interested in transnational
connections.
The "bulwark" or antemurale myth-whereby a region is imagined as a
defensive barrier against a dangerous Other-has been a persistent
strand in the development of Eastern European nationalisms. While
historical studies of the topic have typically focused on clashes
and overlaps between sociocultural and religious formations,
Rampart Nations delves deeper to uncover the mutual transfers and
multi-sided national and interconfessional conflicts that helped to
spread bulwark myths through Europe's eastern periphery over
several centuries. Ranging from art history to theology to
political science, this volume offers new ways of understanding the
political, social, and religious forces that continue to shape
identity in Eastern Europe.
This book explores Eastern European consumer cultures in the
twentieth century, taking a comparative perspective and
conceptualizing the peculiarities of consumption in the region.
Contributions cover lifestyles and marketing strategies in imperial
contexts in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries;
urban consumer cultures in the Interwar Period; and consumer and
advertising cultures in the Soviet Union and its satellite
republics. It traces the development of marketing throughout the
century, and the changes in society brought about by
democratization and the 'Americanization' of consumption. Taken
together, the essays gathered here make a valuable contribution to
our understanding of consumption and advertising in the region.
The "bulwark" or antemurale myth-whereby a region is imagined as a
defensive barrier against a dangerous Other-has been a persistent
strand in the development of Eastern European nationalisms. While
historical studies of the topic have typically focused on clashes
and overlaps between sociocultural and religious formations,
Rampart Nations delves deeper to uncover the mutual transfers and
multi-sided national and interconfessional conflicts that helped to
spread bulwark myths through Europe's eastern periphery over
several centuries. Ranging from art history to theology to
political science, this volume offers new ways of understanding the
political, social, and religious forces that continue to shape
identity in Eastern Europe.
The Yearbook of Transnational History is dedicated to disseminating
pioneering research in the field of transnational history. This
third volume is dedicated to the transnational turn in urban
history. It brings together articles that investigate the
transnational and transatlantic exchanges of ideas and concepts for
urban planning, architecture, and technology that served to
modernize cities across East and Central Europe and the United
States. This collection includes studies about regionals fairs as
centers of knowledge transfer in Eastern Europe, about the transfer
of city planning among developing urban centers within the
Austro-Hungarian Empire, about the introduction of the Bauhaus into
American society, and about the movement for constructing paved
roads to connect cities on a global scale. The volume concludes
with a historiographical article that discusses the potential of
the transnational perspective to urban history. The articles in
this volume highlight the movement of ideas and practices across
various cultures and societies and explore the relations,
connections, and spaces created by these movements. The articles
show that modern cities across the European continent and North
America emerged from intensive exchanges of ideas for almost every
aspect of modern urban life.
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