Streetscapes of war and revolution : Prague, 1914-1920 /
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| Author / Creator: | Morelon, Claire, 1984- author. |
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| Imprint: | Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2024. ©2024 |
| Description: | xi, 327 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Studies in the social and cultural history of modern warfare Studies in the social and cultural history of modern warfare. |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13525921 |
| Summary: | Prague entered the First World War as the third city of the Habsburg empire, but emerged in 1918 as the capital of a brand new nation-state, Czechoslovakia. Claire Morelon explores what this transition looked, sounded and felt like at street level. Through deep archival research, she has carefully reconstructed the sensorial texture of the city, from the posters plastered on walls, to the shop windows' displays, the badges worn by passers-by, and the crowds gathering for protest or celebration. The result is both an atmospheric account of life amid war and regime change, and a fresh interpretation of imperial collapse from below, in which the experience of life on the Habsburg home-front is essential to understanding the post-Versailles world order that followed. Prague is the perfect case study for examining the transition from empire to nation-statehood, hinging on revolutionary dreams of fairer distribution and new forms of political participation. |
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| Physical Description: | xi, 327 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781009335300 1009335308 9781009335331 |
