Streetscapes of War and Revolution - Couverture souple

Morelon, Claire

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1009335316 ISBN 13 : 9781009335317

Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 2025

Synopsis

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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Claire Morelon is Lecturer in Modern European History at the University of Manchester. She is the co-editor of Embers of Empire: Continuity and Rupture in the Habsburg Successor States after 1918 (2018). She has held research fellowships at the University of Oxford and the University of Padova.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Cambridge University Press
• Date d'édition: 2025
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1009335316
• ISBN 13: 9781009335317
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 340
• Coordonnées du fabricant: Cambridge University Press; https://www.cambridge.org/; ; Via Honduras,15; Pomezia; Italia; 71; Italie