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" Berlin / "
David Clay Large.
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BL
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972101
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b726471
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Large, David Clay.
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Berlin /\ David Clay Large.
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| Publication Statement
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New York :: Basic Books,, ©2000.
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xxvii, 706 pages :: illustrations ;; 23 cm
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| ISBN
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046502632X
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: 046502646X
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: 9780465026326
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: 9780465026463
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 649-684) and index.
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| Abstract
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"In Berlin, Large argues that 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 center of artistic and intellectual innovation - one of the great cultural meccas of our time. If Paris was the "Capital of the Nineteenth Century," Berlin was to become the signature city for the next hundred years."
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"Large's sweeping narrative 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, despite its standing as a major European metropolis; a distrust amongst 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; a heterogeneity that transformed the once sleepy Prussian outpost into a sophisticated metropolis yet also fostered resentment over the resulting wrenching social changes; the opening up of social, economic and ethnic divisions as sharp as the one created by the Wall."--Jacket.
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Manners and customs.
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Travel.
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Berlin (Germany), Description and travel.
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Berlin (Germany), History.
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Berlin (Germany), Social life and customs.
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Berlin (Germany), Description and travel.
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Berlin (Germany), History.
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Berlin (Germany), Social life and customs.
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Berlin
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Germany, Berlin.
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| Dewey Classification
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943/.155
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| LC Classification
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DD860.L37 2000
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15.70bcl
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15.70.bcl
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8,1ssgn
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8,1.ssgn
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NR 6910rvk
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NR 6910.rvk
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