"Why are we drawn to certain cities? Perhaps because of a story read in childhood. Or a chance teenage meeting. Or maybe simply because the place touches us, embodying in its tribes, towers and history an aspect of our understanding of what it means to be human. Paris is about r…
"Why are we drawn to certain cities? Perhaps because of a story read in childhood. Or a chance teenage meeting. Or maybe simply because the place touches us, embodying in its tribes, towers and history an aspect of our understanding of what it means to be human. Paris is about r…
"In The Collapse historian Mary Elise Sarotte shows that the opening of the Berlin Wall on November 9, 1989, was not, as is commonly believed, the East German government's deliberate concession to outside influence. It was an accident. A carelessly worded memo written by mid-lev…
"Metropolis Berlin: 1880-1940 reconstitutes the built environment of Berlin during the period of its classical modernity using over two hundred contemporary texts, virtually all of which are published in English translation for the first time. They are from the pens of those who…
HIST The ending of the Cold War and the reunification of Germany have brought about an outpouring of books on the new Germany. Richie (Fellow, Wolfson Coll., Oxford) has added this lengthy study of Berlin. With its checkered past, the city stands at the center of the reunited na…
"The first carefully researched historical analysis of the co-evolution of Berlin and its infrastructure services"--
"The first carefully researched historical analysis of the co-evolution of Berlin and its infrastructure services"
Introduction : Berlin's invisible infrastructures -- Trajectories of technological urbanism -- Unitary services for a greater Berlin -- Weimar's networked municipalism -- Subjugation to National Socialism -- Vulnerability and resilience during war and division -- In pursuit of t…
"The first carefully researched historical analysis of the co-evolution of Berlin and its infrastructure services"--
"The first carefully researched historical analysis of the co-evolution of Berlin and its infrastructure services"--
"The Historical Dictionary of Berlin contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has more than 300 cross-referenced entries on important personalities, places, institutions, and events"--
