Berlin - Washington, 1800 - 2000: capital cities, cultural representation, and national identities

Capitals in modern history: Inventing urban spaces for the nation / Andreas W. Daum -- Bundesdorf or Bundesstadt? The debates on the location of the American and German capitals / Kenneth R. Bowling and Ulrike Gerhard -- Written capitals and capital topography: Berlin and Washington in travel litera...

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Other Authors: Daum, Andreas W. (Editor) , Mauch, Christof (Other)
Format: Conference Paper Edited Volume
Language:English
Published: Washington, DC [u.a.] German Historical Inst. [u.a.] 2005
Edition:1st publ.
Series:Publications of the German Historical Institute
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Online Access:Inhaltsverzeichnis: https://swbplus.bsz-bw.de/bsz114599343inh.htm
Rezension: https://www.hsozkult.de/publicationreview/id/rezbuecher-8028
Rezension: http://www.sehepunkte.de/2007/01/11381.html
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Author Notes:ed. by Andreas W. Daum; Christof Mauch
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Summary:Capitals in modern history: Inventing urban spaces for the nation / Andreas W. Daum -- Bundesdorf or Bundesstadt? The debates on the location of the American and German capitals / Kenneth R. Bowling and Ulrike Gerhard -- Written capitals and capital topography: Berlin and Washington in travel literature / Walter Erhart -- Prime meridians, national time, and the symbolic authority of capitals in the Nineteenth century / Martin H. Geyer -- Washington and Berlin: national capitals in a networked world / Carl Abbott -- Monumental architecture and national identity in Berlin: the case of National Socialism / Dietmar Schirmer -- Monuments of catastrophe: Holocaust architecture in Washington and Berlin / Janet Ward -- Capital gardens: the Mall and the Tiergarten / Christof Mauch -- Socialism on display: East Berlin as a capital / Brian Ladd -- Washington under Federal rule, 1871-1945 / Alan H. Lessoff -- "Everyday" protest and the culture of conflict in Berlin, 1830-1980 / Belinda Davis -- Marches on Washington and the creation of national public spaces, 1894 to the present / Lucy Barber
ISBN:0521841178
9780521841177