A Handy Illustrated Guide to Vienna and Environs
A Handy Illustrated Guide to Vienna and Environs

Author: Julius Meurer

Publisher: CreateSpace

Published: 2014-03-04

Total Pages: 178

ISBN-13: 9781496063540

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A historical reprint of a 1906 guide to Vienna (Wien). Includes century-old perspectives of the legendary city's greatest features. Experience it the way our ancestor's saw it. Handier than the free PDFs on the web, this you can hold, bookmark, highlight and shelve. An inexpensive imperative for any writer, travel- or history-buff.

Imperial cities
Imperial cities

Author: Felix Driver

Publisher: Manchester University Press

Published: 2017-03-01

Total Pages: 302

ISBN-13: 1526117967

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Imperial cities explores the influence of imperialism in the landscapes of modern European cities including London, Paris, Rome, Vienna, Marseilles, Glasgow and Seville. Examines large-scale architectural schemes and monuments, including the Queen Victoria Memorial in London and the Vittoriano in Rome. Focuses on imperial display throughout the city, from spectacular exhibitions and ceremonies, to more private displays of empire in suburban gardens. Cconsiders the changing cultural and political identities in the imperial city, looking particularly at nationalism, masculinity and anti-imperialism.

Embodied Histories
Embodied Histories

Author: Katya Motyl

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 2024

Total Pages: 323

ISBN-13: 0226832163

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"In Embodied Histories, historian Katya Motyl explores the everyday acts of defiance that formed the basis for new, unconventional forms of womanhood in turn-of-the-century Vienna. The figures Motyl brings back to life dressed however they pleased, defied gender conformity, behaved brashly, and expressed themselves freely, overturning assumptions about what it meant to exist as a woman. Motyl delves into the ways in which these women inhabited and reshaped the urban landscape of Vienna, an increasingly modern, cosmopolitan city. Specifically, she focuses on how easily overlooked quotidian practices such as loitering outside cafés, striking up conversations with strangers, and taking dogs for walks helped create novel conceptions of gender. Exploring the emergence of a new womanhood, Embodied Histories presents a new account of how the gender, the body, and the city merge with and transform each other, showing how our modes of being are radically intertwined with the spaces we inhabit"--