Order in the Streets von Aleksander Łupienko | The Political History of Warsaw’s Public Space in the First Half of the 19th Century | ISBN 9783631800706

Order in the Streets

The Political History of Warsaw’s Public Space in the First Half of the 19th Century

von Aleksander Łupienko, übersetzt von Jarek Garliński

Order in the Streets

Name: Order in the Streets
Author: Aleksander Łupienko

The Political History of Warsaw’s Public Space in the First Half of the 19th Century

von Aleksander Łupienko, übersetzt von Jarek Garliński

The book offers a wide perspective on the history of the capital of the Kingdom of Poland. The Kingdom was a small part of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, which passed under the rule of the Russian Tsars. The book presents the life of the streets, squares and parks, special events, the changing infrastructure and the rise of consumerism. It describes how Warsaw became a monumental capital in a short period of 1815‒1830. The main plot of the book is the political dimension of the space: publicly expressed sympathies and aversions towards politicians, rising control and Russification, acts of loyalty and anti-Russian demonstrations to regain hegemony in the early 1860s. The author reflects on the question if the modern definitions of the public space can be applied to a historic city.