TY  - GEN
TY  - GEN
T1  - Gda´nsk : portrait of a city
A1  - Loew, Peter Oliver, 1967- kirjoittaja
A2  - Wood, Jesse C., kääntäjä
LA  - eng
PP  - New York, NY
PB  - Oxford University Press
YR  - 2024
ED  - English edition
UL  - https://kansalliskirjasto.finna.fi/Record/fikka.5693935
AB  - "Gda nsk: Portrait of a City tells the story of the city of Gda nsk, from the prehistoric origins of its Baltic surroundings on the Vistula and Mot awa 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 Gda nsk's political, cultural, religious, and economic history as an important, oft-disputed Baltic port city greedily sought by surrounding powers. At times, Gda nsk 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" (Solidarno s c), which would play a key role in the fall of European communism. Gda nsk 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. Gda nsk: 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"--
NO  - Original title: Danzig: biographie einer stadt.
SN  - 9780197603864 kovakantinen
KW  - Gda´nsk (Poland) : History.
ER  -