German Cities and Bourgeois Modernism, 1890-1924

A study of the distinctive brand of modernism that emerged in late 19th century Germany and remained influential throughout the inter-war years and beyond, illustrating through a series of in-depth analyses of key buildings and urban spaces how bourgeios modernism shaped the infrastructure of social and political life in the early twentieth century and transformed the physical environment of German cities.

Maiken Umbach teaches modern European history at the University of Manchester and has held fellowships and visiting appointments at the University of Cambridge, the Australian National University, Harvard, the Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, and University College London. Her principal research interest concerns the changing role and configuration of regional identities and place-based politics in German and European history, from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries. She has published a number of works in the field, including Federalism and Enlightenment in Germany, 1740-1806 (2000), German Federalism: Past, Present, Future (as editor, 2002) and Vernacular Modernism: Heimat, Globalization and the Built Environment (2004, co-edited with Bernd Huppauf). She is also joint editor of the journal German History.