Philipp Nielsen

Martin Kohlrausch

Eva Giloi

Heikki Lempa

Heidi Mehrkens

Kevin Rogan

Staging Authority: Presentation and Power in Nineteenth-Century Europe is a comprehensive handbook on how the presentation, embodiment, and performance of authority changed in the long nineteenth century. It focuses on the diversification of authority: what new forms and expressions of authority arose in that critical century, how traditional authority figures responded and adapted to those changes, and how the public increasingly participated in constructing and validating authority. It pays particular attention to how spaces were transformed to offer new possibilities for the presentation of authority, and how the mediatization of presence affected traditional authority. The handbook’s fourteen chapters draw on innovative methodologies in cultural history and the aligned fields of the history of emotions, urban geography, persona studies, gender studies, media studies, and sound studies.

Presentation and Power in Nineteenth-Century Europe. A Handbook

Staging Authority

In seiner Darstellung geht M. Kohlrausch der Frage nach, wieweit der Monarch der Logik der Massenmedien unterworfen war und welche Konsequenzen das hatte. Wilhelm II. und seine Skandale wurden zum öffentlichen Ereignis: Bismarckentlassung, Caligula-Affäre, Eulenburg-Skandal, Kamarilla-Prozesse, Daily-Telegraph-Interview. Sie spiegeln eine frühzeitig radikale Kritik am Monarchen und eine Umdefinition der Monarchie.

Die Logik der Massenmedien und die Transformation der wilhelminischen Monarchie

Der Monarch im Skandal

Peter Heyrman

Jan de Maeyer

This volume investigates places where old and new elites came together, where these groups met and interacted but also where the rules and conventions for new elites were forged. The book focusses arenas of encounter and (self)representation belonging to the world of leisure and embraces also the organizations and associations which established and ran these spaces and events.

Arenas of Encounter in Continental Europe, 1815-1914

Leisure and Elite Formation

Regina Schulte

Pernille Arenfeldt

Xenia von Tippelskirch

Geschlecht und Herrschaft in der höfischen Welt

Der Körper der Königin

The story of modernist architects in East Central Europe The first half of the twentieth century witnessed the rise of modernist architects. Brokers of Modernity reveals how East Central Europe turned into one of the pre-eminent testing grounds of the new belief system of modernism. By combining the internationalism of the CIAM organization and the modernising aspirations of the new states built after 1918, the reach of modernist architects extended far beyond their established fields. Yet, these architects paid a price when Europe’s age of extremes intensified. Mainly drawing on Polish, but also wider Central and Eastern European cases, this book delivers a pioneering study of the dynamics of modernist architects as a group, including how they became qualified, how they organized, communicated and attempted to live the modernist lifestyle themselves. In doing so, Brokers of Modernity raises questions concerning collective work in general and also invites us to examine the social role of architects today. Ebook available in Open Access. This publication is GPRC-labeled (Guaranteed Peer-Reviewed Content).

East Central Europe and the Rise of Modernist Architects, 1910-1950

Brokers of Modernity

Martin Kohlrausch

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