Molly Loberg

The Struggle for the Streets of Berlin

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Produktbeschreibung

Molly Loberg reconstructs the vibrant, volatile, and lost topography of interwar Berlin. She charts the contests for Berlin's streets during the Weimar Republic and Third Reich and their transformation into a means of communication, lens of perception, and stage of action for both commercial and political life.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 340
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Februar 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 494g
• ISBN-13: 9781108405546
• ISBN-10: 1108405541
• Artikelnr.: 58660811

Autorenporträt

Molly Loberg of California Polytechnic State University, is a Fulbright Scholar and Humboldt Fellow. She has won several awards for her research, including the History Article Prize (2013) from the Berkshire Conference of Women Historians.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
List of figures
Introduction: streets of desire and discontent
1. Paper revolutions: urban advertising in the aftermath of the First World War
2. Commerce turned inside out: street hawkers, shopkeepers, and the moral geography of consumption during the inflation
3. Crowd control: traffic, spectacle, and demonstrations during the 'golden twenties'
4. Fortress shops and militarized streets: looting in depression-era Berlin
5. When rogues become regulators: 'coordination 'of the streets under the new Nazi regime
6. Visions of a Nazi world capital: urban 'revitalization' from the Christmas market to Kristallnacht
Epilogue: eradicating Berlin: urban destruction from Germania to the Second World War
Bibliography
Index.