Streetlife : the untold history of Europe's twentieth century / Leif Jerram.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jerram, Leif.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cities and towns--Europe--History--20th century.

Cities and towns.

City and town life--Europe--History--20th century.

City and town life.

Europe--History--20th century.

Europe.

Europe--Social life and customs--20th century.

Europe--Politics and government--20th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (488 p.)

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The twentieth century in Europe was an urban century: it was shaped by life in, and the view from, the street. Women were not liberated in legislatures, but liberated themselves in factories, homes, nightclubs, and shops. Lenin, Hitler, and Mussolini made themselves powerful by making cities ungovernable with riots rampaging through streets, bars occupied one-by-one. New forms of privacy and isolation were not simply a by-product of prosperity, but because people planned new ways of living, new forms of housing in suburbs and estates across the continent. Our proudest cultural achievements lie

Contents:

Revolution in the streets

No place for a lady?

The cultured metropolis

Sex and the city

Building utopia: how cities shaped our lives and our minds

Epilogue: the way we live now?.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [425]-461) and index.

ISBN:

9781283848305

1283848309

9780191539732

0191539732

OCLC:

820009851