The development of Austro-Hungarian Sarajevo, 1878-1918
Subtitle: an urban history
By: Mary Sparks
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Published: 2014
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 253
ISBN-13: 9781472523556; 9781472531070; 9781472533203
Subjects: Social life and customs; Social conditions; Economic conditions; Buildings, structures; Sources; History; City and town life; Politics and government; HISTORY / Europe / General; HISTORY / Modern / 19th Century; HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century
Description: "The Developmentof Austro-Hungarian Sarajevo, 1878-1918, charts the urban history of Sarajevo between 1878 and 1918 within the context of other modernising central-European cities. It gives detailed consideration to elements of change and continuity in the development of the urban fabric, as well as the economic, social and cultural life of the city. The book also explores how far changes were the work of the occupying Austro-Hungarian administration and the influx of immigrants from elsewhere, and how far the local elites took an active role in the redevelopment of their own city. Numerous case studies of particular buildings and their owners and maps illustrating the chronological development of the city during the period are used throughout the book to highlight aspects of the aforementioned themes. Material from a range of sources, including census records, directories, newspapers, government documents, planning records and photographs, is also used to augment observations and arguments developed in this important study for all students and scholars of modern Central and Eastern Europe"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-240) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Ottoman Sarajevo; title: The public face : Sarajevo as a provincial capital; title: The private face : middle class building development in Sarajevo; title: Sarajevo at the centre of the developing Bosnian economy; title: The development of a middle class society; title: Conspicuous consumption and cultures of urban display; title: Conclusion.