1: Introduction
2: The Sense of Time: Configuring History and Memory in the
City
3: The Sense of Place: Representing the Local in the Modern
City
4: Nature and Culture: Greening the City
5: The Designed Object: Commercial Culture and the Global
Market
6: Liberal Governmentality and the Spatial Politics of
'Bürgerlichkeit'
7: Conclusion & Epilogue: Bourgeois Modernism and National
Socialism
Maiken Umbach teaches modern European history at the University of
Manchester and has held fellowships and visiting appointments at
the University of Cambridge, the Australian National University,
Harvard, the Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, and University
College London. Her principal research interest concerns the
changing role and configuration of regional identities and
place-based politics in German and European history, from the
eighteenth to the
twentieth centuries. She has published a number of works in the
field, including Federalism and Enlightenment in Germany, 1740-1806
(2000), German Federalism: Past, Present, Future (as editor, 2002)
and
Vernacular Modernism: Heimat, Globalization and the Built
Environment (2004, co-edited with Bernd Hüppauf). She is also joint
editor of the journal German History.
A sophisticated re-evaluation of German bourgeois modernism through
the lens of material culture.
*Sasha Disko, European History Quarterly.*
Umbach's arguments will be of considerable interest to German
historians and to architectural, urban, and cultural historians ...
deserves a wide audience.
*Jeffry M. Diefendorf, Central European History*
this study of the material culture of German modernism clearly
provides readers with a scintillating exercise in environmental and
aesthetic history.
*Michael Biddiss, History*
Maiken Umbach has written a brilliant, provocative and engaging
study of bourgeois modernism that will make a substantial impact
upon the scholarship of modern German history and culture.
*Carolyn Kay, English Historical Review*
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