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Streetlife
The Untold History of Europe's Twentieth Century
Leif Jerram
480 pages
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24 black and white halftones
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196x129mm
978-0-19-280707-6
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Hardback
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24 February 2011
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- A totally new history of twentieth century Europe, told through its cities
- Shows how the city fundamentally shaped the history of the continent in our time, from Hitler to hip-hop, suburbanization to sexual liberation
- Invites us to view familiar themes - like the rise of fascism, the cold war, the working class struggle for a good standard of living - from a new perspective
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 not in our galleries or state theatres, but in our suburban TV sets, the dance halls, pop music played in garages, and hip hop sung on our
estates.
In Streetlife, Leif Jerram presents a totally new history of the twentieth century, with the city at its heart, showing how everything distinctive about the century, from revolution and dictatorship to sexual liberation, was fundamentally shaped by the great urban centres which defined it.Readership: All those interested in the history of Europe in the twentieth century and contemporary urban culture
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Leif Jerram, Lecturer in European and Urban History, University of Manchester Leif Jerram was born in Woolwich in south-east London in 1971, and lived there until he went to study history at university. After having lived in San Diego, Bremen, Munich and Paris, he settled in Manchester to do his PhD - the first industrial city. There he has remained, barring a brief stint as a fellow at Selwyn College, Cambridge. He is currently a lecturer in urban history in the School of Arts at Manchester University, as well as being involved in community politics and activism. He has published widely in the field of cultural and urban history, including most recently Germany's Other Modernity: Munich and the Making
of Metropolis, 1895-1930 (2007).
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"An unromanticized. sweeping and informed cultural history of European histories in the long twentieth century...Streetlife is a remarkable work of synthesis...Jerram condenses a prodigious amount of historicl scholarship with impressive economy and judiciousness." - Anson Rabinbach, Times Literary Supplement "A highly impressive read. The clever navigation between history writ large and the anecdotal...makes this book not only academically engaging but also an enjoyable read. Streetlife is an important work for anyone interested in urban history." - Reviews in History "an enjoyably idiosyncratic and provocative journey" - Financial Times
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Introduction: How Cities Made Modern Europe
1: Revolution in the Streets
2: Streetwalkers
3: The Cultured Metropolis
4: Sex and the City
5: Building Utopia: How Cities Shaped our Lives and our Minds
Epilogue: The Way We Live Now?
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