Streetscapes of War and Revolution

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'A brilliantly fresh reading of Prague's streets and the lives of its diverse inhabitants during and after the First World War. Morelon weaves a vibrant narrative, drawing on people's sensory experiences to expose the revolutionized character of daily life. Reaching beyond nationalist tropes, she analyzes the changing dynamics of popular patriotism, neighborhood loyalties, expectations of empire, and of the daily struggle to survive.' Pieter M. Judson, author of The Habsburg Empire: A New History 'With a deft pen, a humane gaze, and a myriad of sources ranging from letters, official reports, newspapers, memoirs, novels, and photographs, Morelon has succeeded in doing what no one has so far: she has made us feel what it was like for women, children, and men to walk, sit, listen, stand, wait, oversee, protest, complain, starve, threaten, and celebrate on the streets of Prague from the times of empire to the shaky first days of republic. After reading her tale of East Central European urban war and postwar, the traumas of Prague's early twentieth century become more understandable, more pitiable, and, yes, even more foreboding.' Dominique Kirchner Reill, author of The Fiume Crisis: Life in the Wake of the Habsburg Empire 'Morelon re-narrates the birth of a new Czechoslovak Republic from the perspective of Prague's streets, where war and revolution were sensory experiences. Streetscapes of War and Revolution makes an original and brilliant contribution to the history of East Central Europe, war and revolution, and urban life in the twentieth century.' ?ara Zahra, author of Against the World: Anti-Globalism and Mass Politics between the World Wars 'wonderfully atmospheric.' Anna Parker, Times Literary Supplement