TY - BOOK AU - Black,Monica TI - Death in Berlin: from Weimar to divided Germany T2 - Publications of the German Historical Institute SN - 9780521118514 AV - GT3250.B47 U1 - 393.0943/155 22 PY - 2010/// CY - Washington, DC PB - German Historical Institute KW - Death KW - Social aspects KW - Germany KW - Berlin KW - Funeral rites and ceremonies KW - Berlin (Germany) KW - Social life and customs KW - History KW - 20th century KW - Class of Fall 2014 KW - John P. Birkelund Fellow in the Humanities KW - Fellow N1 - Literaturverz. S. 281 - 300; Death in Berlin, circa 1930 -- Nazi ways of death -- Death in everyday life -- Death and reckoning -- Death in socialism -- Death and the West N2 - "We tend to think of death as a basic and immutable fact of life. Yet death, too, has a history. Death in Berlin is the first study to trace the rituals, practices, perceptions, and sensibilities surrounding death in the context of Berlin's multiple transformations over the decades between Germany's defeat in World War I and the construction of the Berlin Wall. Evocatively illustrated and drawing on a rich collection of sources, Monica Black reveals the centrality of death to the evolving moral and social life of one metropolitan community. In doing so, she connects the intimacies of everyday life and death to events on the grand historical stage that changed the lives of millions - all in a city that stood at the center of some of the twentieth century's most transformative events"--Provided by publisher; "Death in Berlin traces rituals and perceptions surrounding death from the Weimar Republic to the building of the Berlin Wall"--Provided by publisher; Death in Berlin, circa 1930 -- Nazi ways of death -- Death in everyday life -- Death and reckoning -- Death in socialism -- Death and the West UR - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=30704 UR - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=33475 UR - https://swbplus.bsz-bw.de/bsz322809703inh.htm UR - https://www.hsozkult.de/publicationreview/id/rezbuecher-16177 ER -