Stefan Goebel

Cities into Battlefields

Metropolitan Scenarios, Experiences and Commemorations of Total War
Herausgeber: Keene, Derek

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Cities have always had a key role in warfare, as strategic centres which periodically suffered the horrors of siege and sack. This title explores the cultural imprint of military conflict on metropolises world wide in the era of the First and Second World Wars.

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This book explores the cultural imprint of military conflict on metropolises worldwide in the First and Second World Wars. It brings together cultural and urban historians and scholars of anthropology, education, geography, and urban planning, and examines how the emergence of 'total' warfare blurred the boundaries between home and front and transformed cities into battlefields. The central contention of this volume, that total war in the twentieth century has a significant but often overlooked metropolitan dimension, is addressed, filling a gap in the currently available literature.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 254
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 535g
• ISBN-13: 9780754660385
• ISBN-10: 0754660389
• Artikelnr.: 40084677

Autorenporträt

Dr Stefan Goebel, University of Kent, UK and Professor Derek Keene, Institute of Historical Research, London, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Towards a metropolitan history of total war: an introduction,
Stefan Goebel and Derek Keene; 'A promise of terror to come': air power and
the destruction of cities in British imagination and experience, 1908-39,
Susan R. Grayzel; '9/7', the first day of the London blitz: the context,
Peter Stansky; Parisian peculiarities: the French capital in the age of
total war, Patrice Higonnet; Constructing a symbol of defeat and national
rejuvenation: Edirne (Adrianople) in Ottoman propaganda and writing during
the Balkan Wars, Eyal Ginio; Reclaiming their city: Belgraders and the
combat against Habsburg propaganda through rumours, 1915-18, Jovana
Knezevic; Local space and total war: enemies in Vienna in the two world
wars, Maureen Healey; Ghettos and the remaking of urban space: a
comparative study of Budapest and Warsaw, Tim Cole; Total warfare in a
city: Stalingrad, Berlin - and Baghdad, Antony Beevor; Commemorative
cosmopolis: transnational networks of remembrance in post-war Coventry,
Stefan Goebel; Memories in ruins: Hiroshima's nuclear annihilation and
beyond, Lisa Yoneyama; The spirit of war remains intact: the politics of
space in Tokyo and the Yasukuni shrine, Julie Higashi; Conclusion:
metropolitan history and national history in the age of total war, Jay
Winter; Index.