Beschreibung:
This third volume of the Yearbook of Transnational History offers readers new perspectives with regards to urban history. This Yearbook is the worldwide only periodical dedicated to the publication of research in the field of transnational history.
The Yearbook of Transnational History is dedicated to disseminating pioneering research in the field of transnational history. This third volume is dedicated to the transnational turn in urban history. It brings together articles that investigate the transnational and transatlantic exchanges of ideas and concepts for urban planning, architecture, and technology that served to modernize cities across East and Central Europe and the United States. This collection includes studies about regionals fairs as centers of knowledge transfer in Eastern Europe, about the transfer of city planning among developing urban centers within the Austro-Hungarian Empire, about the introduction of the Bauhaus into American society, and about the movement for constructing paved roads to connect cities on a global scale. The volume concludes with a historiographical article that discusses the potential of the transnational perspective to urban history.
The articles in this volume highlight the movement of ideas and practices across various cultures and societies and explore the relations, connections, and spaces created by these movements. The articles show that modern cities across the European continent and North America emerged from intensive exchanges of ideas for almost every aspect of modern urban life.
1Searching for Best Practices: Emerging Cities and their Transnational RelationsHeidi Hein-Kircher, Eszter Gantner, and Aleksander Łupienko2 Between Local and Global: The International Network of the Civil Engineer Imre Forbáth around 1900 Eszter Gantner3 Little Vienna – Little Budapest: Ring Boulevards of Three Mid-Sized Towns in the Habsburg Empire, 1848-1920Máté Tamáska 4 Transnational Modernization on the Periphery? The Role of Engineers in the Rise of Modern Lviv (1870‒1914)Aleksander Łupienko5 The 1894 Galician Crownland Exposition in Lviv as a Polish Hub of Knowledge TransferHeidi Hein-Kircher6 Perceived Problems and Progress: German Views of American Society around 1900Andrew Lees7 Circulating Between Cities: The Transnational Evolutionary Relationship of Good Roads DevelopmentBarry L. Stiefel8 Popularizing Modernism: The Cold War and the International StyleCor Wagenaar9 Urban History and the Transnational PerspectiveAlan LessoffIndexAbout the Editors and Contributors