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• Publisher : Harvard University Press
• File Size : 43,5 Mb
• Release Date : 30 June 2009

In this study of the newspaper page, Fritzsche analyzes how reading & writing dramatized Imperial Berlin & anticipated the modernist sensibility that celebrated discontinuity, instability, & transience.

• Publisher : Harvard University Press
• File Size : 26,9 Mb
• Release Date : 17 June 2024

Not an autobiography in the customary sense, Benjamin's recollection of his childhood in an upper-middle-class Jewish home in Berlin's West End at the turn of the century is translated into

• Publisher : Berghahn Books
• File Size : 36,5 Mb
• Release Date : 17 June 2024

By closely examining the interaction between intellectual and material culture in the period before the Nazis came to power in Germany, the author comes to the conclusion that, contrary to

• Publisher : Harvard University Press
• File Size : 46,7 Mb
• Release Date : 30 June 2009

Step into Ernst Wolzogen's Motley Theater, Max Reinhardt's Sound and Smoke, Rudolf Nelson's Chat noir, and Friedrich Hollaender's Tingel-Tangel. Enjoy Claire Waldoff's rendering of a lower-class Berliner, Kurt Tucholsky's satirical

• Publisher : Harvard University Press
• File Size : 27,8 Mb
• Release Date : 10 April 2010

In this inventive book, Peter Fritzsche explores how Europeans and Americans saw themselves in the drama of history, how they took possession of a past thought to be slipping away,

• Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
• File Size : 49,5 Mb
• Release Date : 17 June 2024

Manifestoes and Transformations is the first work to deal with urban utopias and their relationship with actual urban interventions. Bringing together a carefully chosen, wide-ranging team of experts, the book

• Publisher : Univ of California Press
• File Size : 24,7 Mb
• Release Date : 16 January 2006

Berlin Electropolis ties the German discourse on nervousness in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries to Berlin's transformation into a capital of the second industrial revolution. Focusing on three

• Publisher : Harvard University Press
• File Size : 49,9 Mb
• Release Date : 17 June 1998

Why did ordinary Germans vote for Hitler? In this dramatically plotted book, organized around crucial turning points in 1914, 1918, and 1933, Peter Fritzsche explains why the Nazis were so popular and what

• Publisher : Oxford University Press
• File Size : 38,5 Mb
• Release Date : 17 June 2024

Reader's Liberation addresses questions of what we should be reading to obtain information, examining how past readers encountered the same problems that today's readers face, and how they dealt with

• Publisher : Cambridge University Press
• File Size : 50,6 Mb
• Release Date : 03 January 2019

Explores how, why and where an Islamic revival emerged in 1970s Egypt, and why this shift remains relevant today.