Berlin Joseph Pearson
Material type: TextLanguage: English Series: CityscopesPublisher: London Reaktion Books 2017Copyright date: ©2017Description: 255 pages illustrations (some color), map 20 cmContent type:- Text
- unbewegtes Bild
- ohne Hilfsmittel zu benutzen
- Band
- 9781780237190
- 1780237197
- 943.155
- DD860 DD881.3
Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Status | Notes | Date due | Barcode | |
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single unit book | HAC Library - Holdings of the American Academy in Berlin HAC – Basement – Library Hallway | Guides (Guide books) | Guides:DD881.3 .P43 2017 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | Paperback | 2024-0017 |
City map on back cover flap. - Includes bibliographical references (pages 232-241), filmography (pages 241-242) and index
"Berlin is a party in a graveyard. It is Europe's youth capital, and its guilty war conscience. It is a disputed construction site, built on the ruins of regimes. Today's diversity -- refugees, immigrants, arty expats, East and West -- emerges from a history of violence. Berlin is as cutting-edge and contemporary as it is wary of its extreme past. Berlin [the book] is a comprehensive short history and portrait of the German capital today. The story of Berlin's vagaries over nine centuries -- from a dry place in a bog to the control centre of modern Europe -- is expertly portrayed by historian Joseph Pearson. The dynamic present is a palimpsest of this unsettling past. A long-time flâneur of Berlin's streets, Pearson explores how the city's history is visible today in bombsites, museums and industrial club spaces (and a lake hosting a man-nibbling monster). In this book, we find that elements of the city that for some can be unnerving -- its emptiness, its provincialism, its ramshackle industrial eclecticism, its sexual freedoms, its confrontation with a murderous past -- are precisely what give the city its charge. Pearson poses provocative questions as he reveals the city's many layers and varied neighbourhoods. He argues, ultimately, that Berlin's centrality in European and cultural affairs is only just beginning to be felt"--Page 2 [flap] of cover
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