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Berlin : imagine a city / Rory MacLean.
- Title
- Berlin : imagine a city / Rory MacLean.
- Author
- MacLean, Rory, 1954-
- Publication
- London : Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2014.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Request in advance | DD860 .M335 2014 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- viii, 421 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
- Summary
- 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.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- History
- Anthologie
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- 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.
- ISBN
- 9780297871835
- 0297871838
- 9780297868828 (hbk.)
- 0297868829 (hbk.)
- OCLC
- 871047746
- SCSB-11823050
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library