Author

Publication

2012 - Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, England

Language

English

Word Count

71,250 words, Guess

Page Count

285 pages

Identifiers

and 3 more
  • Better World Books9781107024038
  • Better World BooksKS-038-190
  • Open LibraryOL25173518M

Classifications

  • DDC623/.194309034
  • LCCUG430.G47 M56 2012

Description

"This book tells the story of German cities' metamorphoses from walled to defortified places between 1689 and 1866"-- "Throughout its long history, the German city was always a dynamic organism. It continuously changed in size and appearance, and its economic and political relationships with the outer world were often in flux. The defortification of the German city in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries was a significant moment in the city's history. It signaled a fundamental transformation of the urban environment on three interrelated levels: the level of the city's defense against military intervention from the outside; the level of public security and police within the city; and the symbolic level of the way both locals and foreigners imagined the urban community"--

Subjects

Series Statement

  • Publications of the German Historical Institute

Other Editions

  • The defortification of the German city, 1689-1866Cambridge University Press2012-01-01

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