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OverviewToo often, scholars treat transnationalism as a conflict in which the local, regional, and national give way to globalized identity. As these varied studies of German cities show, though, the urban environment is actually a site of trans-localism that is not merely oppositional, but that adapts itself dialectically to the forces of globalization. Full Product DetailsAuthor: J. Diefendorf , J. WardPublisher: Palgrave Macmillan Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan Dimensions: Width: 15.50cm , Height: 2.10cm , Length: 23.50cm Weight: 5.561kg ISBN: 9781137390165ISBN 10: 1137390166 Pages: 277 Publication Date: 24 April 2014 Audience: College/higher education , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of Contents"PART I: CONTESTED GERMAN URBAN PUBLICS 1. Enlightenment in the European City: Rethinking German Urbanism and the Public Sphere; Daniel Purdy 2. Posen or Pozna?, Rathaus or Ratusz: Nationalizing the Cityscape in the German-Polish Borderland; Elizabeth Drummond 3. Inclusion and Segregation in Berlin, the ""Social City""; Stephan Lanz 4. Wild Barbecuing: Urban Citizenship and the Politics of (Trans-)Nationality in Berlin's Tiergarten; Bettina Stoetzer PART II: CROSSING BOUNDARIES IN MODERN GERMAN PLANNING 5. Transnational Dimensions of German Anti-Modern Modernism: Ernst May in Breslau; Deborah Ascher Barnstone 6. Was There an Ideal Socialist City? Socialist New Towns as Modern Dreamscape; Rosemary Wakeman 7. Housing as Transnational Provocation in Cold War Berlin; Greg Castillo 8. Transatlantic Crossings of Planning Ideas: The Neighborhood Unit in the USA, UK, and Germany; Dirk Schubert PART III: CITY CULTURES AND THE GERMAN (TRANS)NATIONAL IMAGINARY 9. Princes and Fools, Parades and Wild Women: Creating, Performing, and Preserving Urban Identity through Carnival in Cologne and Basel; Jeffry M. Diefendorf 10. The Local, the National–and the Transnational? Spatial Dimensions in Hamburg's Memory of World War I during the Weimar Republic; Janina Fuge 11. From the American West to West Berlin: Wim Wenders, Border Crossings, and the Transnational Imaginary; Nicole Huber and Ralph Stern PART IV: GERMAN URBAN HERITAGE FOR A (TRANS)NATIONAL ERA 12. Post-Post-War Re-Construction of a Destroyed Heimat: Perspectives on German Discourse and Practice; Grischa Bertram and Friedhelm Fischer 13. Berlin's Museum Island: Marketing National Heritage in the Age of Globalization; Tracy Graves 14. The Historic Preservation Fallacy? Transnational Culture, Urban Identity, and Monumental Architecture in Berlin and Dresden; John V. Maciuika"ReviewsTransnationalism and the German City is an important interdisciplinary contribution to the fields of transnational history, urban studies, German history, and German studies. ... this interdisciplinary volume represents an important intervention in German and transnational studies, raising questions about the relationship between transnational and local influences in the context of the German city and laying foundations for future scholarship. (Shelley Rose, H-German, H-Net Reviews, h-net.org, September, 2016) “Transnationalism and the German City is an important interdisciplinary contribution to the fields of transnational history, urban studies, German history, and German studies. … this interdisciplinary volume represents an important intervention in German and transnational studies, raising questions about the relationship between transnational and local influences in the context of the German city and laying foundations for future scholarship.” (Shelley Rose, H-German, H-Net Reviews, h-net.org, September, 2016) Author InformationDeborah Ascher Barnstone, Technology University, Sydney, Australia Grischa F. Bertram, University of Kassel, Germany Greg Castillo, University of California, Berkeley, USA Elizabeth A. Drummond, Loyola Marymount University, USA Friedhelm Fischer, University of Kassel, Germany Janina Fuge, University of Hamburg, Germany Tracy Graves, Michigan State University, USA Nicole Huber, University of Washington, USA Stephan Lanz, European University Viadrina, Germany John V. Maciuika, CUNY Graduate Center, USA Daniel Purdy, Penn State University, USA Dirk Schubert, Hafencity University, Germany Ralph Stern, University of Manitoba, Canada Bettina Stoetzer, University of Chicago, USA Rosemary Wakeman, Fordham University, USA Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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