Berlin - Washington, 1800-2000 by Andreas Daum
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.-
Nature and Power
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Life after Death
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Death in Berlin
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The Treaty of Versailles
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German Orientalism in the Age of Empire
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Criminals and their Scientists
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1968: The World Transformed
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Foreign in Two Homelands
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Making Germans
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America, the Vietnam War, and the World
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The Defortification of the German City, 16891866
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From Nurturing the Nation to Purifying the Volk
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Refugee Crises, 1945-2000
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Transatlantic Images and Perceptions
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Exiled Among Nations
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Money and Security
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War and Childhood in the Era of the Two World Wars
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Decades of Reconstruction
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Reading and Rebellion in Catholic Germany, 1770-1914
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Nuclear Threats, Nuclear Fear and the Cold War of the 1980s
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Nation and Loyalty in a German-Polish Borderland
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Inventing the Silent Majority in Western Europe and the United States
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Nazi Crimes and the Law
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Medicine and Modernity
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A World at Total War
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A Past Renewed
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Soldiers of Labor
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Environmental Histories of the Cold War
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Paying for Hitler's War
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The Holocaust and the Germanization of Ukraine
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Transnational Nazism
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Austrian Banks in the Period of National Socialism
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Getting and Spending
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Historical Justice in International Perspective
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American Policy and the Reconstruction of West Germany, 19451955
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Heisenberg in the Atomic Age
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Identity and Intolerance
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German Merchants in the Nineteenth-Century Atlantic
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Ostpolitik, 1969-1974
"..the fascinating essays in this volume approach from multiple perspectives the question of how these cities attain symbolic importance in the performance of national identity.... With its thoroughly researched, original, and well-written contributions, the book models the rich insights that comparative cultural history, competently executed, can yield. It can be read with profit and pleasure by specialists and generalists alike, some of whom might be inspired to take a comparative look at the very real challenges faced by these cities today." --Patricia Herminghouse, University of Rochester, German Quarterly Book Reviews
"...a valuable contribution that complements the extensive literature on Berlin and Washington, rounding off existing debates." -H-German, Daniela Sandler
"...a valuable contribution that complements the extensive literature on Berlin and Washington, rounding off existing debates." -H-German, Daniela Sandler
Dr. rer. pol. Andreas Daum ist Professor fur BWL und Controlling, Dr.-Ing. M.A. Rainer Przywara ist Professor fur Technischen Vertrieb und Marketing, Dr. rer. pol. Wolfgang Greife ist Professor fur BWL, Produktions- und Kostenmanagement, alle an der Fachhochschule Hannover. Die Autoren sind daneben in Weiterbildung, Coaching und Beratung in der betrieblichen Praxis tatig.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781107402584 |
| ISBN 10 | 1107402581 |
| Title | Berlin - Washington, 1800-2000 |
| Author | Andreas Daum |
| Series | Publications Of The German Historical Institute |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
| Year published | 2011-07-21 |
| Number of pages | 334 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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