Berlin, Washington, 1800-2000
Subtitle: capital cities, cultural representation, and national identities
By: edited by Andreas W. Daum, Christof Mauch.
Contributors: Daum, Andreas W.; Mauch, Christof.
Series: Publications of the German Historical Institute
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Cambridge, UK; New York, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 318
Subjects: National characteristics, German.; National characteristics, American.; Berlin (Germany) -- History.; Washington (D.C.) -- History.; Germany -- Capital and capitol.; United States -- Capital and capitol.
Description: "This collection examines the urban spaces of Berlin and Washington and provides a comparative cultural history of two eminent nation-states in the modern era. Each of the cities has assumed, at times, a mythical quality and they have been seen as collective symbols, with ambitions and contradictions that mirror the nation-states they represent. Such issues such stand in the centre of this volume. The authors ask what these two capitals have meant for the nation and explore the relations between architecture, political ideas, and social reality. Topics range from Thomas Jefferson's ideas about the new capital of the United States to the creation of the Holocaust memorial in Berlin, from nineteenth-century visitors to small-town Washington to the protesters of the 1968 student movement in West Berlin. This lively collection of essays speaks to audiences as diverse as historians, urban sociologists, architects and readers interested in cultural studies."--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Capitals in modern history: Inventing urban spaces for the nation / Andreas W. Daum; title: Bundesdorf or Bundesstadt? The debates on the location of the American and German capitals / Kenneth R. Bowling and Ulrike Gerhard; title: Written capitals and capital topography: Berlin and Washington in travel literature / Walter Erhart; title: Prime meridians, national time, and the symbolic authority of capitals in the Nineteenth century / Martin H. Geyer; title: Washington and Berlin: national capitals in a networked world / Carl Abbott; title: Monumental architecture and national identity in Berlin: the case of National Socialism / Dietmar Schirmer; title: Monuments of catastrophe: Holocaust architecture in Washington and Berlin / Janet Ward; title: Capital gardens: the Mall and the Tiergarten / Christof Mauch; title: Socialism on display: East Berlin as a capital / Brian Ladd; title: Washington under Federal rule, 1871-1945 / Alan H. Lessoff; title: "Everyday" protest and the culture of conflict in Berlin, 1830-1980 / Belinda Davis; title: Marches on Washington and the creation of national public spaces, 1894 to the present / Lucy Barber.