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Emotional Cities: Debates on Urban Change in Berlin and Cairo, 1860-1910
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Artikel-Nr:
9780198797562
Veröffentl:
2017
Erscheinungsdatum:
14.11.2017
Seiten:
288
Autor:
Joseph Ben Prestel
Gewicht:
539 g
Format:
241x159x22 mm
Serie:
Emotions in History
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
Joseph Ben Prestel is a historian of Europe and the Middle East at Freie Universität Berlin. He received his PhD in history from FU Berlin in 2015. Before joining FU's history department, he held a position at the research center for the History of Emotions at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development. He has also held fellowships at Cambridge University and the American University in Cairo.
Emotional Cities offers an innovative account of the history of cities in the second half of the nineteenth century. Analyzing debates about emotions and urban change, it questions the assumed dissimilarity of the history of European and Middle Eastern cities during this period. The author shows that between 1860 and 1910, contemporaries in both Berlin and Cairo began to negotiate the transformation of the urban realm in terms of emotions. Looking at the
ways in which a variety of urban dwellers, from psychologists to bar maids, framed recent changes in terms of their effect on love, honor, or disgust, the book reveals striking parallels between the histories of the two cities. By combining urban history and the history of emotions, Prestel proposes a new
perspective on the emergence of different, yet comparable cities at the end of the nineteenth century.
ways in which a variety of urban dwellers, from psychologists to bar maids, framed recent changes in terms of their effect on love, honor, or disgust, the book reveals striking parallels between the histories of the two cities. By combining urban history and the history of emotions, Prestel proposes a new
perspective on the emergence of different, yet comparable cities at the end of the nineteenth century.
Analyzing debates about emotions and urban change in Berlin and Cairo, Joseph Ben Prestel questions the assumed dissimilarity of the history of European and Middle Eastern cities in the second half of the nineteenth century.
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