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Berlin (Paperback)
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Berlin (Paperback)
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In the political history of the past century, no city has played a
more prominent-though often disastrous-role than Berlin. At the
same time, Berlin has also been a dynamic centre of artistic and
intellectual innovation. If Paris was the "Capital of the
Nineteenth Century," Berlin was to become the signature city for
the next hundred years. Once a symbol of modernity, in the Thirties
it became associated with injustice and the abuse of power. After
1945, it became the iconic City of the Cold War. Since the fall of
the Wall, Berlin has again come to represent humanity's aspirations
for a new beginning, tempered by caution deriving from the traumas
of the recent past. David Clay Large's definitive history of Berlin
is framed by the two German unifications of 1871 and 1990. Between
these two events several themes run like a thread through the
city's history: a persistent inferiority complex a distrust among
many ordinary Germans, and the national leadership of the "unloved
city's" electric atmosphere, fast tempo, and tradition of
unruliness its status as a magnet for immigrants, artists,
intellectuals, and the young the opening up of social, economic,
and ethnic divisions as sharp as the one created by the Wall.
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