Berlin

By: David Clay Large

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Paperback | 1 November 2001 | Edition Number 1

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A narrative history of one of the 20th century's most loved-and unloved-cities, "Berlin" is as vibrant, and colourful as the great German metropolis itself. 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 1930s 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 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; and the opening up of social, economic and ethnic divisions as sharp as the one created by the Wall.

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Non-Fiction History Specific Events & Topics in History Geonocide & Ethnic Cleansing The Holocaust General & World History Miscellaneous Items Regional & National History European History Local & Family History, Nostalgia Local History Earliest Times to Present Day

Modern History from 1700 to 1900 20th Century History from 1900 to 2000

List of Illustrations	p. ix
Anknowledgments	p. xv
Introduction	p. xvii
Berlin Under Bismarck	p. 1
World City?	p. 47
Discord in the Castle	p. 109
The Great Disorder	p. 157
The World City of Order and Beauty	p. 203
Hitler's Berlin	p. 255
Now People, Arise, and Storm, Break Loose!	p. 319
Coming into the Cold	p. 369
The Divided City	p. 445
From Bonn to Berlin	p. 517
The Berlin Republic	p. 585
Notes	p. 649
Index	p. 685
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