| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 278 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Contents |
A Space of European Memory -- Amber-Gold : Shedding Light on Prehistory -- Green and Blue : Fishers, Merchants, Dukes, 997-1308 -- Brick-Red : Danzig as a Part of the Teutonic State, 1308-1454 -- Wheat-Gold and Rye-Brown : Danzig's Golden Age, 1454-1655 -- Fading Hues, 1655-1793 -- Prussian Blue : Fall and Rise in the Nineteenth Century, 1793-1918 -- Against a Red Background : From the Free City of Danzig to the Second World War, 1918-1945 -- Variations in White and Red : Gdańsk, "Fairer than Ever Before," 1945-1980 -- Kaleidoscope : Into the Future with Solidarity and the Discovery of New Pasts -- Why Gdańsk? |
| Summary |
"Gdańsk: Portrait of a City tells the story of the city of Gdańsk, from the prehistoric origins of its Baltic surroundings on the Vistula and Motława Rivers and its entry into written history in 997 CE, through its more than seven centuries as the German-speaking city of Danzig, and on to the city's position in present-day Poland. The book explores Gdańsk's political, cultural, religious, and economic history as an important, oft-disputed Baltic port city greedily sought by surrounding powers. At times, Gdańsk has stood at the center of modern European history. It was the site of the beginning of the Second World War, as well as the cradle of the Independent Self-Governing Trade Union "Solidarity" (Solidarność), which would play a key role in the fall of European communism. Gdańsk has seen revolts and sieges, and it has suffered nearly total annihilation more than once. Yet although subject over the centuries to local dukes, Teutonic Knights, the Polish crown, Prussia, the German Empire, the Third Reich, and the USSR, and while these powers, particularly those informed by the nationalist paradigms of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, frequently rewrote the city's history and identity in order to fit it into their enforced narratives, the city still developed its own distinct identity that eschews such oversimplifications. Gdańsk: Portrait of a City examines such tendentious interpretations as it traces the development of a distinct municipal identity created through the city's unique geography, population, and history"-- Provided by publisher |
| Notes |
Original title: Danzig: biographie einer stadt |
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Translated from the German |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on May 07, 2024) |
| Subject |
European history.
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History.
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Gdańsk (Poland) -- History.
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Poland -- Gdańsk
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Wood, Jesse C., translator.
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| LC no. |
2023053733 |
| ISBN |
9780197603895 |
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0197603890 |
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9780197603871 |
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0197603874 |
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9780197603888 |
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0197603882 |
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