Gdańsk : portrait of a city / Peter Oliver Loew ; translated by Jesse C. Wood.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Loew, Peter Oliver, 1967- author.

Contributor:

Wood, Jesse C., translator.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Standardized Title:

Danzig. English

Language:

English

German

Subjects (All):

Gdańsk (Poland)--History.

Gdańsk (Poland).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 278 pages) : illustrations, maps

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2024]

Language Note:

Translated from the German.

Summary:

It was where World War II began on September 1, 1939. Its wartime experience was immortalized in Gunter Grass's 'The Tin Drum'. Later it attracted worldwide attention as the site where workers' strikes led by Lech Walesa and the ensuing Solidarity movement led to the fall of Communism in Eastern Europe. Proud Hanseatic port, heart of the Baltic Sea trade, twice a 'Free City,' present-day liberal, cosmopolitan centre: Gdansk's story between Germany and Poland is rich and fascinating. As Peter Oliver Loew colourfully shows, Gdansk, also known as Danzig, is incomparable not only because of its recent past but also in how it has so uniquely embodied the tensions of the European continent over the last millennium. Situated geographically and culturally within these tensions, the city has developed a fascinating identity amid frequent conflict and shifting national affiliations.

Contents:

A Space of European Memory

Amber-Gold : Shedding Light on Prehistory

Green and Blue : Fishers, Merchants, Dukes, 997-1308

Brick-Red : Danzig as a Part of the Teutonic State, 1308-1454

Wheat-Gold and Rye-Brown : Danzig's Golden Age, 1454-1655

Fading Hues, 1655-1793

Prussian Blue : Fall and Rise in the Nineteenth Century, 1793-1918

Against a Red Background : From the Free City of Danzig to the Second World War, 1918-1945

Variations in White and Red : Gdańsk, "Fairer than Ever Before," 1945-1980

Kaleidoscope : Into the Future with Solidarity and the Discovery of New Pasts

Why Gdańsk?

Notes:

Translated from the German.

This edition also issued in print: 2024.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource and publisher information; title from PDF title page (viewed on January 24, 2024).

ISBN:

0-19-760389-0

0-19-760387-4

0-19-760388-2

OCLC:

1411308005