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Berlin
Joseph Pearson
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Description for Berlin
Paperback. Berlin is a comprehensive short history and portrait of the German capital today. Series: CityScopes. Num Pages: 280 pages, 100 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DFG; HBJD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 120. .
Berlin is a party in a graveyard. It is Europe's youth capital, and its guilty war conscience. It is a disputed construction site, built on the ruins of regimes. Today's diversity - refugees, immigrants, arty expats, East and West - emerges from a history of violence. Berlin is as cutting-edge and contemporary as it is wary of its extreme past. Berlin is a comprehensive short history and portrait of the German capital today. The story of Berlin's vagaries over nine centuries - from a dry place in a bog to the control centre of modern Europe - is expertly portrayed ... Read more
Berlin is a party in a graveyard. It is Europe's youth capital, and its guilty war conscience. It is a disputed construction site, built on the ruins of regimes. Today's diversity - refugees, immigrants, arty expats, East and West - emerges from a history of violence. Berlin is as cutting-edge and contemporary as it is wary of its extreme past. Berlin is a comprehensive short history and portrait of the German capital today. The story of Berlin's vagaries over nine centuries - from a dry place in a bog to the control centre of modern Europe - is expertly portrayed ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Reaktion Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Series
CityScopes
Condition
New
Number of Pages
280
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781780237190
SKU
V9781780237190
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-2
About Joseph Pearson
Joseph Pearson is a writer and cultural historian at New York University in Berlin. He is the voice of The Needle, one of Berlin's most popular blogs.
Reviews for Berlin
'For the travelers, artists, flaneurs, coders and students fascinated by Berlin, the historian Joseph Pearson masterfully offers a close reading of the metropolis in all its brutal immediacy. Berlin is an exploration of the German capital as it should be, drawing us into the teeming, tumbling life its streets, clubs and Kieze as well as the dark recesses of the ... Read more