Mastery and lost illusions : space and time in the modernization of Eastern and Central Europe / edited by Włodzimierz Borodziej, Stanislav Holubec, and Joachim von Puttkamer.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Borodziej, Włodzimierz, editor.

Holubec, Stanislav, editor.

Puttkamer, Joachim von, editor.

Series:

Europas Osten im 20. Jahrhundert ; Band 5.

Europas Osten im 20. Jahrhundert= Eastern Europe in the Twentieth Century ; Band/Volume 5

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Urbanization--Europe, Eastern--Congresses.

Urbanization.

Urbanization--Europe, Central--Congresses.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (264 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

München, Germany : Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag GmbH, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 the state's role in the mastery of space, particularly in the context of state socialism. The volume also sheds light on the ruralization of cities and mutual perceptions of the rural and urban populations in this region.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

Introduction / Holubec, Stanislav / Borodziej, Włodzimierz / von Puttkamer, Joachim

Part I: Key Perspectives

Mastery of Space and the Crises of Modernity in Central and Eastern Europe / von Puttkamer, Joachim

A Moving Target or a Lost Illusion? East Central Europe in Pursuit of the West in Two Globalization Phases / Kochanowicz, Jacek

Part II: The Ruralization of Urbanization

Image and Reality of a Splitting Country: The Case of Hungary / Gyáni, Gábor

The Ostrava Industrial Agglomeration in the First Half of the Twentieth Century: Where the Urban Countryside met the Rural Town / Jemelka, Martin

The Ruralization of Bucharest and Warsaw in the First Post-War Decade / Brzostek, Błażej

Nowa Huta, Eisenhüttenstadt and Ostrava-Poruba in Early State Socialism: The Proletarianization and Ruralization of New Cities / Jajeśniak-Quast, Dagmara

Changing the Cityscapes: The Ruralization of Yugoslav Towns in Early Socialism / Dobrivojević, Ivana

Ruralization, Urban Villagers and Perceptions of Migration in Hungary during 'De-Stalinization' (Budapest, Sztálinváros) / Horváth, Sándor

Part III: Space and the Crises of Modernity

Integration or Decentralization? The Construction of Railways and Waterways in Cisleithania / Jakubec, Ivan

The Sea(side) Borderland of Modernity: Rostock, Klaipe˙ da and Tallinn from the 1870's to the 1920's / Kochanowski, Jerzy

"We bring order, discipline, Western European democracy, and culture to this land of former oriental chaos and disorder." / Holubec, Stanislav

List of Contributors

Index

Notes:

"Second annual conference in June 2012, focus on problems of modernity in twentieth-century Eastern and Central Europe."

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9783110399189

3110399180

9783110364316

311036431X

OCLC:

893191859