Yair Mintzker

Defortification of the German City, 1689-1866 (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

In the early modern period, all German cities were fortified places. Because contemporary jurists have defined 'city' as a coherent social body in a protected place, the urban environment had to be physically separate from the surrounding countryside. This separation was crucial to guaranteeing the city's commercial, political and legal privileges. Fortifications were therefore essential for any settlement to be termed a city. This book tells the story of German cities' metamorphoses from walled to de-fortified places between 1689 and 1866. Using a wealth of original sources, The Defortification of the German City, 1689-1866 discusses one of the most significant moments in the emergence of the modern city: the dramatic and often traumatic demolition of the city's centuries-old fortifications and the creation of the open city.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Juli 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781108577755
• Artikelnr.: 54275185

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.