Invitation to the online presentation of the book “Interurban Knowledge Exchange in Southern and Eastern Europe, 1870–1950”

Interurban

Invitation to the online presentation of the book

 

“Interurban Knowledge Exchange in Southern and Eastern Europe, 1870–1950”


with the section


Igor Lyman and Victoria Konstantinova. “In Search of Best Practices Within the Confines of the Russian Empire: The Port City of Berdyansk”


HIRA & hps.cesee


Digital Book Launch

 

January 21, 2021 6 pm (CET)


Interurban Knowledge Exchange in Southern and Eastern Europe, 1870–1950


Edited by


Eszter Gantner, Heidi Hein-Kircher and Oliver Hochadel


(Routledge, 2020)

Commentaries by Harald Stühlinger (Fachhochschule Nordwestschweiz)


and Jan Surman (Independent Researcher)


Chair: Tatsiana Astrouskaya (Herder Institute)

 

Around 1900 cities in Southern and Eastern Europe were persistently labeled "backward" and "delayed." Allegedly, they had no alternative but to follow the role model of the metropolises, of London, Paris or Vienna. This edited volume fundamentally questions this assumption. It shows that cities as diverse as Barcelona, Berdyansk, Budapest, Lviv, Milan, Moscow, Prague, Warsaw and Zagreb pursued their own agendas of modernization.

More on the book.

Please register here. 

 Digital HIRA (Herder Institute Research Academy) Book Launch is an event series launched by the Herder Institute for Historical Research on East Central Europe, Institute of the Leibniz Association. We have developed the series to support a vivid academic exchange and discussion at a time when personal contacts remain restricted. The Digital HIRA Book Launch brings together alumni, current HIRA fellows, and interested colleagues offering the newest results of our research to the broader public.

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