Peter Oliver Loew

Gdańsk

Portrait of a City

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The only single volume history in English, this acclaimed book tells the rich and fascinating story of Gdansk, a unique city in both German and Polish history

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. April 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 165mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 590g
• ISBN-13: 9780197603864
• ISBN-10: 0197603866
• Artikelnr.: 68058559

Autorenporträt

Peter Oliver Loew is Director of the German Institute of Polish Affairs and honorary professor at the Technical University of Darmstadt. The author of several books, he has been instrumental in the foundation of a forthcoming "German-Polish House" in Berlin to serve as a place of remembrance and information.

Inhaltsangabe

* Translator's Note
* Acknowledgments
* Introduction: A Space of European Memory
* 1: Amber-Gold: Shedding Light on Prehistory
* 2: Green and Blue: Fishers, Merchants, Dukes, 997-1308
* 3: Brick-Red: Danzig as a Part of the Teutonic State, 1308-1454
* 4: Wheat-Gold and Rye-Brown: Danzig's Golden Age, 1454-1655
* 5: Fading Hues, 1655-1793
* 6: Prussian Blue: Fall and Rise in the Nineteenth Century, 1793-1918
* 7: Against a Red Background: From the Free City of Danzig to the
Second World War, 1918-1945
* 8: Variations in White and Red: Gdäsk, "Fairer than Ever Before,"
1945-1980
* 9: Kaleidoscope: Into the Future with Solidarity and the Discovery of
New Pasts
* Epilogue: Why Gdäsk?
* Appendix: Names of Places
* Notes
* Selected Bibliography
* Index