Berlin - Ten Moments That Shaped

Through a series of ten vignettes, this engaging introduction to a fascinating city explores Berlin's historical layers, startling transformations and contested legacies. Mary Fulbrook presents Berlin's distinctive history as rooted in specific places and sites, examining how the city continues to be re-imagined, constructed and experienced.

List of contents

Introduction: People, place, identity; 1. Foundational moments; 2. Courtly residence; 3. Absolutism and enlightenment; 4. Emerging powerhouse: from Napoleon to unification; 5. World city: Imperial Berlin; 6. Greater Berlin: the Weimar era; 7. Nazi Berlin: performance, persecution and destruction; 8. Double visions (1): Divided Berlin from the war to the Wall; 9. Double visions (2): Divided Berlin from the Wall to reunification; 10. Re-connection: United Berlin since 1990; Epilogue: forever changing, yet always Berlin; Index.

About the author

Mary Fulbrook, FBA, is Professor of German History at University College London. Her previous publications include the Wolfson Prize-winning Reckonings: Legacies of Nazi Persecution and the Quest for Justice (2018) and the Fraenkel Prize-winning A Small Town near Auschwitz: Ordinary Nazis and the Holocaust (2012). Her mother fled Berlin in the 1930s, and Fulbrook has long been fascinated by the city.

Summary

Through a series of ten vignettes, this engaging introduction to a fascinating city explores Berlin's historical layers, startling transformations and contested legacies. Mary Fulbrook presents Berlin's distinctive history as rooted in specific places and sites, examining how the city continues to be re-imagined, constructed and experienced.

Product details

• Authors: Mary Fulbrook, Mary (University College London) Fulbrook, Fulbrook Mary
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.2025
• EAN: 9781009160933
• ISBN: 978-1-0-0916093-3
• No. of pages: 300
• Series: Ten Moments That Shaped
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Non-fiction book; Berlin, European History, Germany, HISTORY / Europe / General, 20th Century, Social & cultural history, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, c 1500 onwards to present day, c 1000 CE to c 1500, 15th century, c 1400 to c 1499, Social and cultural history, Early history: c 500 to c 1450/1500, 14th century, c 1300 to c 1399, Modern Period, C 1500 Onwards, 13th century, c 1200 to c 1299