Berlin - Brossura

Large, David

Brossura

ISBN 10: 046502632X ISBN 13: 9780465026326

Casa editrice: Basic Books, 2001

Riassunto

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 centre 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 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.

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Informazioni sull?autore

David Clay Large, Professor of History at Montana State University, is a specialist in modern German history. He is the author of Where Ghosts Walked, Germans to the Front, Between Two Fires, and Berlin. He lives in Bozeman, Montana, and San Francisco, California.

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: Basic Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 2001
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 046502632X
• ISBN 13: 9780465026326
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 736
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile