Faust s Metropolis

Informationen zum Autor Alexandra Richie is the author of the critically acclaimed ‘Faust’s Metropolis: A History of Berlin’. Dr Richie received her DPhil at St. Antony's College, Oxford, and was later a Fellow of Wolfson College. She has lectured on international politics and history across the world, from Warsaw University to the Getty Museum in Los Angeles. She lives in Warsaw with her husband and two children. Klappentext 'Beautifully conceived and marvellously researched. I haven't read a better book on Berlin.' Gordon A. Craig In Berlin, history is tangible. The sense of the past - of Europe, of Germany, and of the 20th-century's myths, depravities, idealism and horror - hangs in the air around the old Hinterhofs and deserted railway stations. No other city has played such a part in the tides of 20th-century European affairs. 'Faust's Metropolis' follows the rich and inspiring history of this city: from the revolutionary fervour of its teeming slums, the insufferable pomp of Imperial Berlin, and the frantic modernism of Weimar to the brutality of the Nazis and the symbolic defeat of Communism as the Wall came down. Writing superbly of Berlin's role as a crucible of change, Alexandra Richie reveals herself as an extraordinary new talent. Zusammenfassung ‘Beautifully conceived and marvellously researched. I haven’t read a better book on Berlin.’ Gordon A. Craig

Product details

• Authors: Alexandra Richie, Richie Alexandra
• Publisher: Harper Collins Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 07.06.1999
• EAN: 9780006376880
• ISBN: 978-0-00-637688-0
• No. of pages: 1168
• Dimensions: 153 mm x 233 mm x 46 mm
• Subjects: Travel > Travel guides > Germany; HISTORY / Europe / Germany, European History, Germany, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Weimar Republic;Nazis;Hitler;European capital;Europe