From the Berlin Museum to the Berlin Wall: Essays on the Cultural and Political History of Modern Germany
These essays by nine distinguished historians deal with prominent personalities in German history over the last two centuries; and they are dominated by two themes. First, they trace the growth and flowering of German culture in areas like print and architecture and painting and how this transformed relationships and procedures in everyday life. Second, they follow the rise of a political consciousness on the part of the Germans, and the consequences this consciousness had for nationalism in the 19th and 20th centuries. In throwing light on the art of Schinkel and Liebermann, on the undertakings of Lichtwark, on the policies of Bismarck, and on the ordeals of Rathenau and Hitler and Beck and Faulhaber and Brandt, these nine essays offer a salutary guidepost to a past that is as rich as it is terrifying.
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From the Berlin Museum to the Berlin Wall: Essays on the Cultural and Political History of Modern Germany
These essays by nine distinguished historians deal with prominent personalities in German history over the last two centuries; and they are dominated by two themes. First, they trace the growth and flowering of German culture in areas like print and architecture and painting and how this transformed relationships and procedures in everyday life. Second, they follow the rise of a political consciousness on the part of the Germans, and the consequences this consciousness had for nationalism in the 19th and 20th centuries. In throwing light on the art of Schinkel and Liebermann, on the undertakings of Lichtwark, on the policies of Bismarck, and on the ordeals of Rathenau and Hitler and Beck and Faulhaber and Brandt, these nine essays offer a salutary guidepost to a past that is as rich as it is terrifying.
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From the Berlin Museum to the Berlin Wall: Essays on the Cultural and Political History of Modern Germany

From the Berlin Museum to the Berlin Wall: Essays on the Cultural and Political History of Modern Germany

by David Wetzel
From the Berlin Museum to the Berlin Wall: Essays on the Cultural and Political History of Modern Germany

From the Berlin Museum to the Berlin Wall: Essays on the Cultural and Political History of Modern Germany

by David Wetzel

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These essays by nine distinguished historians deal with prominent personalities in German history over the last two centuries; and they are dominated by two themes. First, they trace the growth and flowering of German culture in areas like print and architecture and painting and how this transformed relationships and procedures in everyday life. Second, they follow the rise of a political consciousness on the part of the Germans, and the consequences this consciousness had for nationalism in the 19th and 20th centuries. In throwing light on the art of Schinkel and Liebermann, on the undertakings of Lichtwark, on the policies of Bismarck, and on the ordeals of Rathenau and Hitler and Beck and Faulhaber and Brandt, these nine essays offer a salutary guidepost to a past that is as rich as it is terrifying.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780275954451
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date: 10/21/1996
Pages: 224
Product dimensions: 6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.56(d)
Lexile: 1480L (what's this?)

About the Author

DAVID WETZEL works in Administration at the University of California, Berkeley.

Table of Contents

Introduction
Aesthetic Theory and Architectural Practice: Schinkel's Museum in Berlin by James J. Sheehan
The Cost of Culture: On Liebermann, Lichtwark, and Others by Peter Gay
Bismarck, South Germany, and the Problem of 1870 by David Wetzel
The Old Prussian and the People's William: Some Centennial Reflections on Otto von Bismarck and William E. Gladstone by Francis L. Loewenheim
Walther Rathenau and the Vision of Modernity by Fritz Stern
Hitler's Impact on History by Henry Ashby Turner, Jr.
Moral Choice and Officialdom: General Ludwig Beck in the Year of Munich by Ernest R. May
Cardinal Faulhaber and the Third Reich by Theodore S. Hamerow
The Making of ein Berliner: Kennedy, Brandt, and the Origins of Détente by Diethelm Prowe
Selected Bibliography
Index

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