The defortification of the German city, 1689-1866
By: Yair Mintzker, Princeton University
Series: Publications of the German Historical Institute
Publisher: Cambridge University Press; German Historical Institute
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Cambridge
Language: eng
Number of pages: 285
ISBN-13: 9781107024038
Subjects: Fortification; City walls; HISTORY / Europe / General; History
Description: "This book tells the story of German cities' metamorphoses from walled to defortified places between 1689 and 1866"--

"Throughout its long history, the German city was always a dynamic organism. It continuously changed in size and appearance, and its economic and political relationships with the outer world were often in flux. The defortification of the German city in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries was a significant moment in the city's history. It signaled a fundamental transformation of the urban environment on three interrelated levels: the level of the city's defense against military intervention from the outside; the level of public security and police within the city; and the symbolic level of the way both locals and foreigners imagined the urban community"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: Part I. Beginnings, 1689-1789: 1. The city and its walls; 2. The French model and the German case, 1689-1789; Part II. A Perfect Storm, 1791-1815: 3. The great defortification surge, 1791-1815; 4. The road to Lunéville, 1791-1801; 5. Collapse, 1801-1815; Part III. After the Deluge, 1815-1866: 6. Restoration's boundaries: fortress, hometown, metropolis, 1815-1848; 7. A modern city, 1848-1866.