Identity and the urban experience : fin-de-siécle Budapest /

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Author / Creator:Gyáni, Gábor.
Imprint:Boulder, Colo. : Social Science Monographs ; Wayne, N.J. : Center for Hungarian Studies and Publications ; New York : Distributed by Columbia University Press, 2004.
Description:ix, 271 p. : map ; 23 cm.
Language:English
Series:CHSP Hungarian studies series ; no. 5
East European monographs ; no. 652
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5612662
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ISBN:0880335513 0880335515
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (p. 225-254) and index.
Table of Contents:
  • Pt. 1. A united city on the Danube
  • Pt. 2. The social history of urban public space
  • Ch. 1. European and American perspectives
  • Ch. 2. The city as theater
  • Pt. 3. Uses and misuses of public space
  • Ch. 3. User strategies
  • Ch. 4. Middle-class sociability : at the cafe
  • Ch. 5. Middle-class sociability : at the department store
  • Ch. 6. Rites of becoming visible and invisible
  • Ch. 7. Spatial patterns of the riots
  • Pt. 4. The psyche of urban personality
  • Ch. 8. Marriage and divorce
  • Ch. 9. Acculturation and mass culture
  • Ch. 10. Words and identity : the Budapest language
  • Ch. 11. Visual images and identity
  • Ch. 12. Cultural modernism and identity crisis.