An edition of Berlin: Portrait of a City Through the Centuries (2014)

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An edition of Berlin: Portrait of a City Through the Centuries (2014)

Berlin

imagine a city

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  • 3 Want to read
  • 2 Have read

Berlin is a city of fragments and ghosts, a laboratory of ideas, the fount of both the brightest and darkest designs of history's most bloody century. The once arrogant capital of Europe was devastated by Allied bombs, divided by a wall, then reunited and reborn as one of the creative centres of the world. Rory MacLean provides a richly varied, unexpected tour of the city's history.

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Weidenfeld & Nicolson, Orion Publishing Group, Limited
Language
English
Pages
421

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Subjects

Social life and customs, History, Description and travel, HISTORY / Europe / Germany, History of europe, Germany, Manners and customs, Travel, Berlin (germany), history, Germany, civilization, Berlin (germany), social life and customs, Berlin (germany), politics and government, Berlin (germany), description and travel, Civilization, Politics and government

People

Christopher Isherwood, David Bowie (1947-2016), Leni Riefenstahl, Marlene Dietrich (1901-1992), Albert Speer, Joseph Goebbels (1897-1945)

Places

Berlin (Germany)

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Berlin: Portrait of a City Through the Centuries
2014, St. Martin's Press
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Berlin: imagine a city
2014, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, Orion Publishing Group, Limited
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Table of Contents

Machine generated contents note: -- 1.
Konrad von Colln, and True Love -- -- 2.
Colin Albany, and the Players -- -- 3.
Frederick the Great, and the Making of Prussia -- -- 4.
Karl Friedrich Schinkel, and the Dream of a Capital -- -- 5.
Lilli Neuss, and the Owl -- -- 6.
Walther Rathenau, and Lost Beauty -- -- 7.
Else Hirsch, and the Illusion -- -- 8.
Margarete Bohme, and Diary of a Lost Girl -- -- 9.
Fritz Haber, and the Geography of Evil -- -- 10.
Kathe Kollwitz, Mother and Child -- -- 11.
Christopher Isherwood, in a City of the Imagination -- -- 12.
Bertolt Brecht, Luck and the Epic -- -- 13.
Marlene Dietrich, on Becoming -- -- 14.
Leni Riefenstahl, and the Fatal Flaw -- -- 15.
Albert Speer, and Germania -- -- 16.
Joseph Goebbels, the Man Who Made Hitler -- -- 17.
Dieter Werner, Wall Builder -- -- 18.
Bill Harvey, and the Tunnel -- -- 19.
John F. Kennedy, and Politics as Theatre -- -- 20.
David Bowie, and `Heroes' -- -- 21.
Lieu Van Ha, and the Gun -- -- 22.
People, Let's Dance -- -- 23.
Ilse Philips, in Another Berlin.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Published in
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Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
943.155
Library of Congress
DD860, DD860 .M335 2014

The Physical Object

Pagination
viii, 421 pages
Number of pages
421

ID Numbers

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OL32797211M
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ISBN 10
0297868829, 0297871838
ISBN 13
9780297868828, 9780297868835, 9780297871835
OCLC/WorldCat
871047746

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Berlin is a city of fragments and ghosts, a laboratory of ideas, the fount of both the brightest and darkest designs of history's most bloody century. The once arrogant capital of Europe was devastated by Allied bombs, divided by the Wall, then reunited and reborn as one of the creative centers of the world. Today it resonates with the echo of lives lived, dreams realized, and evils executed with shocking intensity. No other city has repeatedly been so powerful and fallen so low; few other cities have been so shaped and defined by individual imaginations.

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