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Germany’s Urban Frontiers: Nature and History on the Edge of the Nineteenth-Century City
University of Pittsburgh Press, 2020 eISBN: 978-0-8229-8785-7 | Cloth: 978-0-8229-4641-0 Library of Congress Classification HT384.G3P65 2020 Dewey Decimal Classification 307.76094309034
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ABOUT THIS BOOK
In an era of transatlantic migration, Germans were fascinated by the myth of the frontier. Yet, for many, they were most likely to encounter frontier landscapes of new settlement and the taming of nature not in far-flung landscapes abroad, but on the edges of Germany’s many growing cities. Germany’s Urban Frontiers is the first book to examine how nineteenth-century notions of progress, community, and nature shaped the changing spaces of German urban peripheries as the walls and boundaries that had so long defined central European cities disappeared. Through a series of local case studies including Leipzig, Oldenburg, and Berlin, Kristin Poling reveals how Germans on the edge of the city confronted not only questions of planning and control, but also their own histories and futures as a community. See other books on: Cities and towns | City and town life | Edge | Rural-urban migration | Urbanization See other titles from University of Pittsburgh Press |
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Germany’s Urban Frontiers: Nature and History on the Edge of the Nineteenth-Century City
ABOUT THIS BOOK | AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY | REVIEWS | TOC | REQUEST ACCESSIBLE FILE
University of Pittsburgh Press, 2020
eISBN: 978-0-8229-8785-7
Cloth: 978-0-8229-4641-0
eISBN: 978-0-8229-8785-7
Cloth: 978-0-8229-4641-0
In an era of transatlantic migration, Germans were fascinated by the myth of the frontier. Yet, for many, they were most likely to encounter frontier landscapes of new settlement and the taming of nature not in far-flung landscapes abroad, but on the edges of Germany’s many growing cities. Germany’s Urban Frontiers is the first book to examine how nineteenth-century notions of progress, community, and nature shaped the changing spaces of German urban peripheries as the walls and boundaries that had so long defined central European cities disappeared. Through a series of local case studies including Leipzig, Oldenburg, and Berlin, Kristin Poling reveals how Germans on the edge of the city confronted not only questions of planning and control, but also their own histories and futures as a community.
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