Berlin
Author: Joseph Pearson
Format: Paperback
Number of Pages: 280
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 by historian Joseph Pearson. In this book, we find that elements of the city that for some can be unnerving its emptiness, its provincialism, its ramshackle industrial eclecticism, its sexual freedoms, its confrontation with a murderous past are precisely what give the city its charge.
Format: Paperback
Number of Pages: 280
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 by historian Joseph Pearson. In this book, we find that elements of the city that for some can be unnerving its emptiness, its provincialism, its ramshackle industrial eclecticism, its sexual freedoms, its confrontation with a murderous past are precisely what give the city its charge.
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Author: Joseph Pearson
Format: Paperback
Number of Pages: 280
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 by historian Joseph Pearson. In this book, we find that elements of the city that for some can be unnerving its emptiness, its provincialism, its ramshackle industrial eclecticism, its sexual freedoms, its confrontation with a murderous past are precisely what give the city its charge.
Format: Paperback
Number of Pages: 280
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 by historian Joseph Pearson. In this book, we find that elements of the city that for some can be unnerving its emptiness, its provincialism, its ramshackle industrial eclecticism, its sexual freedoms, its confrontation with a murderous past are precisely what give the city its charge.
Berlin