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OverviewCities after the Fall of Communism traces the cultural reorientation of East European cities since 1989. Analyzing the architecture, commemorative practices, and urban planning of cities such as Lviv, Vilnius, and Odessa, the contributors to this volume demonstrate how history may be selectively re-imagined in light of present political and cultural realities. These essays show that while East European cities gravitate nostalgically toward Habsburg, Baltic, Imperial Russian, and Germanic pasts, they are also embracing new urban identities grounded in ethnic-national, European, Western, and global contexts. Ultimately, the editors argue that one can see a ""New Europe"" taking shape in these cities, where a strained discourse between different versions of the past and variously envisioned futures is being set in stone, steel, and glass. Full Product DetailsAuthor: John J. Czaplicka , Nida Gelazis , Blair A. RublePublisher: Johns Hopkins University Press Imprint: Johns Hopkins University Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.90cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.658kg ISBN: 9780801891915ISBN 10: 0801891914 Pages: 384 Publication Date: 10 February 2009 Recommended Age: From 17 Audience: College/higher education , Undergraduate , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Out of Stock Indefinitely Availability: Awaiting stock  Table of ContentsReviewsSpeaks not only to present-day policy debates in Eastern Europe but to broader disciplinary questions about the nature of history. - Stephen Bittner, Sonoma State University This is an excellent, novel, timely, and sophisticated book which represents an authentic contribution to the field. It should interest specialists, as well as other readers interested in urban and regional history, post-socialist transformations, and the construction of cultural identity. - Sonia Hirt, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Author InformationJohn J. Czaplicka is an affiliate at the Center for European Studies at Harvard University and co-chair of the European Cities Study Group, and coeditor of Composing Urban History and the Constitution of Civic Identities, also published by Johns Hopkins. Nida Gelazis is program associate and editor for the East European Studies program at the Woodrow Wilson Center. Blair A. Ruble is director of the Center's Comparative Urban Studies Project as well as its Kennan Institute and coeditor, with Czaplicka, of Composing Urban History and the Constitution of Civic Identities, also published by the Woodrow Wilson Center and. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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