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During the nineteenth century, a change developed in the way
architectural objects from the distant past were viewed by
contemporaries. Such edifices, be they churches, castles, chapels
or various other buildings, were not only admired for their
aesthetic values, but also for the role they played in ancient
times, and their role as reminders of important events from the
national past. Architectural heritage often was (and still is) an
important element of nation building. Authors address the process
of building national myths around certain architectural objects.
National narratives are questioned, as is the position
architectural heritage played in the nineteenth and the early
twentieth centuries.
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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