Bøger af Barbara Hahn

The U.S. city is undergoing constant change. In the East and Midwest, most cities were founded as trading posts on waterways. They boomed during the industrial era and reached their population peak in the mid-20th century, before suburbanization and deindustrialization caused them to decline in importance. Traces of decay were everywhere, and the prognosis for the future was conceivably poor. As Barbara Hahn shows in her book, this trend now seems to have been broken: Things are looking up again for the US city. Some of the former industrial cities have succeeded in structural change. In the south and west of the country, cities have developed into new growth centers. However, not all cities are benefiting from this positive development, and many continue to shrink at an alarming rate. As the author points out, similar processes such as neoliberalisation, deregulation, privatisation and gentrification can be observed in all cities, regardless of their location and levelof development.Due to the large number of didactically prepared graphics, the book is suitable as a study read for students and scholars. The characteristics of the U.S. city, which are elaborated on the basis of current examples, as well as the illustrative photos also illustrate the change of the U.S. city to the interested reader.

The U.S. city is undergoing constant change. In the East and Midwest, most cities were founded as trading posts on waterways. They boomed during the industrial era and reached their population peak in the mid-20th century, before suburbanization and deindustrialization caused them to decline in importance. Traces of decay were everywhere, and the prognosis for the future was conceivably poor. As Barbara Hahn shows in her book, this trend now seems to have been broken: Things are looking up again for the US city. Some of the former industrial cities have succeeded in structural change. In the south and west of the country, cities have developed into new growth centers. However, not all cities are benefiting from this positive development, and many continue to shrink at an alarming rate. As the author points out, similar processes such as neoliberalisation, deregulation, privatisation and gentrification can be observed in all cities, regardless of their location and levelof development.Due to the large number of didactically prepared graphics, the book is suitable as a study read for students and scholars. The characteristics of the U.S. city, which are elaborated on the basis of current examples, as well as the illustrative photos also illustrate the change of the U.S. city to the interested reader.

"The Jewess Pallas Athena"--a line from a poem by Paul Celan. It is a provocative phrase, cutting across cultures and traditions. But it poses questions: How to reconstruct a culture that has been destroyed? How to conceive of history after the catastrophes of the twentieth century? This book begins in the mid-eighteenth century with the first Jewish women to raise their voices in German. It ends two hundred years later, with another group of Jewish women looking back at a country from which they had been expelled and to which they would never want to return. Among the many prominent female intellectuals and literary figures Barbara Hahn discusses are Hannah Arendt, Gertrud Kantorowicz, Rosa Luxemburg, Else Lasker-Schüler, Margarete Susman, and Rahel Levin Varnhagen. In examining their writing, she reflects upon the question of how German culture was constructed--with its inherent patterns of exclusion. This is a book about hope and despair, possibilities and preventions. We see attempts at dialogue between Christians and Jews, men and women, "Germans" and "Jews," attempts initiated by these women that, for the most part, remained unanswered. Finally, the book reconstructs the changing notions of the "Jewess," a key word in modern German history with its connotations of "salons," "beauty," and "esprit." And yet a word that is also disastrous, in which there culminated everything the dominant culture condemned as dangerous.

A bold redefinition of historical inquiry based on the "cropscape"--the people, creatures, technologies, ideas, and places that surround a crop

Die US-amerikanische Stadt ist einem steten Wandel unterworfen. Im Osten und Mittleren Westen waren die meisten Stadte als Handelsstadte an Wasserwegen gegrundet worden. Zu Zeiten der Industrialisierung erlebten sie einen Aufschwung, und ihr Bevolkerungsmaximum erreichten sie Mitte des 20. Jahrhunderts, als aufgrund von Suburbanisierung und Deindustrialisierung ein Bedeutungsruckgang einsetzte. Uberall waren Spuren des Verfalls sichtbar, und die Prognosen fur die Zukunft waren denkbar schlecht. Dieser Trend scheint gebrochen: Es geht wieder aufwarts mit der US-amerikanischen Stadt. Einem Teil der fruheren Industriestadte ist ein Strukturwandel gelungen. Allerdings profitieren nicht alle Stadte von dieser positiven Entwicklung, und viele schrumpfen weiter in erschreckendem Ausma. Gleichzeitig haben sich die Stadte im Suden und Westen des Landes zu neuen Wachstumszentren entwickelt. Unabhangig von Lage und Entwicklungsstand sind in allen Stadten ahnliche Prozesse wie Neoliberalisierung, Deregulierung, Privatisierung und Gentrifizierung zu beobachten.In diesem Lehrbuch werden die Charakteristika der US-amerikanischen Stadt und deren Wandel anhand aktueller Beispiele herausgearbeitet. Die Autorin: Barbara Hahn hat an der Universitat Wurzburg den Lehrstuhl fur Wirtschaftsgeographie und hat den Wandel der US-amerikanischen Stadt seit Mitte der 1980er Jahre im Rahmen vieler Reisen und Forschungsprojekte beobachtet.