Berlin
by David Clay Large
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In the political history of the past century, no city has played a more prominent-though often disastrous-role than Berlin. At the same time, Berlin has also been a dynamic center of artistic and intellectual innovation. If Paris was the "Capital of the Nineteenth Century," Berlin was to become the signature city for the next hundred years. Once a symbol of modernity, in the Thirties it became associated with injustice and the abuse of power. After 1945, it became the iconic City of the Cold show more War. Since the fall of the Wall, Berlin has again come to represent humanity's aspirations for a new beginning, tempered by caution deriving from the traumas of the recent past. David Clay Large's definitive history of Berlin is framed by the two German unifications of 1871 and 1990. Between these two events several themes run like a thread through the city's history: a persistent inferiority complex; a distrust among many ordinary Germans, and the national leadership of the "unloved city's" electric atmosphere, fast tempo, and tradition of unruliness; its status as a magnet for immigrants, artists, intellectuals, and the young; the opening up of social, economic, and ethnic divisions as sharp as the one created by the Wall. show lessTags
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I have recently become interested in German history. I'm partly German and want to understand its history. I also have wanted to go to Berlin and felt I should understand its troubled history. This book was easy read and I enjoyed it.
I would recommend this book to anyone who wants to understand Berlin and its troubled history.
I would recommend this book to anyone who wants to understand Berlin and its troubled history.
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David Clay Large, professor of history at Montana State University, is a specialist in modern German history
Common Knowledge
- Important places
- Berlin, Germany
Classifications
- Genres
- Nonfiction, History, General Nonfiction, Travel
- DDC/MDS
- 943.155 — History & geography History of Europe Central Europe: Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Czech, Poland, Hungary Northeastern Germany Brandenburg and Berlin Berlin
- LCC
- DD860 .L37 — History of Europe, Asia, Africa and Oceania Germany History of Germany Local history and description Berlin
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- Languages
- English, German
- Media
- Paper, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 7
- ASINs
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