This collection examines the urban spaces of Berlin and Washington and provides a comparative cultural history of two eminent nation-states in the modern era. Each of the cities has assumed, at times, a mythical quality and they have been seen as collective symbols, with ambitions and contradictions that mirror the nation-states they represent. Such issues such stand in the centre of this volume. The authors ask what these two capitals have meant for the nation and explore the relations between architecture, political ideas, and social reality. Topics range from Thomas Jefferson's ideas about the new capital of the United States to the creation of the Holocaust memorial in Berlin, from nineteenth-century visitors to small-town Washington to the protesters of the 1968 student movement in West Berlin. This lively collection of essays speaks to audiences as diverse as historians, urban sociologists, architects and readers interested in cultural studies.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
ISBN-13
9780521841177
eBay Product ID (ePID)
96758376
Product Key Features
Author
Christof Mauch, Andreas Daum
Publication Name
Berlin-Washington, 1800-2000: Capital Cities, Cultural Representation, and National Identities
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Subject
History
Publication Year
2005
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
334 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
229mm
Item Width
152mm
Item Weight
660g
Additional Product Features
Series Title
Publications of the German Historical Institute
Editor
Christof Mauch, Andreas Daum
Country/Region of Manufacture
United Kingdom
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