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The Defortification of the German City, 1689-1866 / YAIR MINTZKER, Princeton University

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Mintzker, Yair
Published
Washington, D.C. : GERMAN HISTORICAL Institute ; Cambridge : CAMBRIDGE University Press, 2012.
Physical Description
1 online resource (xv, 285 pages) : illustrations, maps
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Contents
PART ONE: Beginnings, 1689-1789 -- The city and its walls -- The French model and the German case, 1689-1789, PART TWO: A Perfect Storm, 1791-1815 -- The great defortification surge, 1791-1815 -- The road to Lunéville, 1791-1801 -- Collapse, 1801-1815, and PART THREE: After the Deluge, 1815-1866 -- Restoration's boundaries: Fortress, hometown, metropolis, 1815-1848 -- A modern city, 1848-1866.
Summary
"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"--
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ISBN
1139162160 (electronic bk.)
9781139162166 (electronic bk.)
9781107024038 (hardback)
110702403X (hardback)
9781316047965
1316047962
9781107644236
1107644232
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-275) and index.
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