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| List of Illustrations | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Catastrophe, Utopia, and the Architecture of Destruction | |
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| Authentic Ruins: Products of Modernity | |
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| Air War and Architecture | |
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| Modernism and Destruction in Architecture | |
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| Ruins of the Avant-Garde: From Tatlin's Tower to Paper Architecture | |
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| Ruins and the Democratic Polity | |
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| Modernity as a "Destroyed Anthill": Tolstoy on History and the Aesthetics of Ruins | |
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| Democratic Destruction: Ruins and Emancipation in the American Tradition | |
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| The Ruins of a Republic: Czech Modernism after Munich, 1938-1939 | |
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| Layered Time: Ruins as Shattered Past, Ruins as Hope in Israeli and German Landscapes and Literature | |
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| Cities, Citizenship, and other Joburg Stories | |
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| Empires, Ruins, and Their Stories | |
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| Imperial Ruin Gazers, or Why Did Scipio Weep? | |
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| Hegel's Philosophy of World History via Sebald's Imaginary of Ruins: A Contrapuntal Critique of the "New Space" of Modernity | |
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| Vilcashuam�n: Telling Stories in Ruins | |
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| The Monument in Ruins | |
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| Simultaneous Modernity: Negotiations and Resistances in Urban India | |
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| (Post) Ruinscapes | |
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| Ruins as Models: Displaying Destruction in Postwar Germany | |
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| "Memory Traces of an Abandoned Set of Futures": Industrial Ruins in the Postindustrial Landscapes of Germany | |
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| Colonial Melancholy and Fordist Nostalgia: The Ruinscapes of Namibia and Detroit | |
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| Dr. Strangelove's Cabinet of Wonder: Sifting through the Atomic Ruins at the Nevada Test Site | |
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| Invisible at a Glance: Indigenous Cultures of the Past, Ruins, Archaeological Sites, and Our Regimes of Visibility | |
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| Ruin Gazing | |
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| Foundational Ruins: The Lisbon Earthquake and the Sublime | |
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| The Promise of a Ruin: Gavrila Derzhavin's Archaic Modernity | |
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| Ruin Cinema | |
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| The Place of Rubble in the Tr�mmerfilm | |
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| Lost in Time: Boris Mikhailov and His Study of the Soviet | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Contributors | |
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| Index | |