- EAN13
- 9780465010127
- Éditeur
- Basic Books
- Date de publication
- 15/10/2007
- Langue
- anglais
- Fiches UNIMARC
- S'identifier
Livre numérique
-
Aide EAN13 : 9780465010127
-
Fichier EPUB, avec DRM Adobe
- Impression
-
Impossible
- Copier/Coller
-
Impossible
- Partage
-
6 appareils
18.99 -
Fichier EPUB, avec DRM Adobe
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 center 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.
prominent-though often disastrous-role than Berlin. At the same time, Berlin
has also been a dynamic center 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.
S'identifier pour envoyer des commentaires.