Streetlife [[electronic resource] ] : the untold history of Europe's twentieth century / / Leif Jerram

• Autore: Jerram Leif
• Pubblicazione: Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2011
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (488 p.)
• Disciplina: 307.760940904
• Soggetto topico: Cities and towns - Europe - History - 20th century; City and town life - Europe - History - 20th century
• Soggetto geografico: Europe History 20th century; Europe Social life and customs 20th century; Europe Politics and government 20th century
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [425]-461) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Revolution in the streets -- No place for a lady? -- The cultured metropolis -- Sex and the city -- Building utopia: how cities shaped our lives and our minds -- Epilogue: the way we live now?.
• Sommario/riassunto: The twentieth century in Europe was an urban century: it was shaped by life in, and the view from, the street. Women were not liberated in legislatures, but liberated themselves in factories, homes, nightclubs, and shops. Lenin, Hitler, and Mussolini made themselves powerful by making cities ungovernable with riots rampaging through streets, bars occupied one-by-one. New forms of privacy and isolation were not simply a by-product of prosperity, but because people planned new ways of living, new forms of housing in suburbs and estates across the continent. Our proudest cultural achievements lie
• Titolo autorizzato: Streetlife
• ISBN: 1-283-84830-9; 0-19-153973-2
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910462795203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II