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

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Daum, Andreas W., Mauch, Christof
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : Cambridge, UK ; New York, NY : German Historical Institute ; Cambridge University Press, 2005.
Series:Publications of the German Historical Institute.
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Online Access:Table of contents
Table of Contents:
  • Capitals in modern history: inventing urban spaces for the nation / Andreas W. Daum
  • Siting federal capitals: the American and German debates / 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
  • State, volk, and monumental architecture in Nazi-era Berlin / Dietmar Schirmer
  • Monuments of catastrophe: Holocaust architecture in Washington and Berlin / Janet Ward
  • Capital gardens: the Mall and the Tiergarten in comparative perspective / 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 G. Barber.