Yair Mintzker

The Defortification of the German City, 1689 1866

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book tells the story of German cities' metamorphoses from walled to defortified places between 1689 and 1866.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 302
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. September 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 493g
• ISBN-13: 9781107644236
• ISBN-10: 1107644232
• Artikelnr.: 40558244

Autorenporträt

Yair Mintzker is Assistant Professor of European History at Princeton University. His PhD dissertation won the Elizabeth Spilman Rosenfield Prize of Stanford's Department of History in 2009 and the Friends of the German Historical Institute's Fritz Stern Dissertation Prize in 2010. His articles have been published in History of European Ideas and Reflexions historiques.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. Beginnings
1689-1789: 1. The city and its walls; 2. The French model and the German case
1689-1789; Part II. A Perfect Storm
1791-1815: 3. The great defortification surge
1791-1815; 4. The road to Lunéville
1791-1801; 5. Collapse
1801-15; Part III. After the Deluge
1815-66: 6. Restoration's boundaries: fortress
hometown
metropolis
1815-48; 7. A modern city
1848-66.