- Series
- Publications of the German Historical Institute
Publications of the German Historical Institute.
- Format
- Book
- Published
- Washington, D.C. : German Historical Institute ; Cambridge, UK ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2005
- Locale
- Berlin (Germany)
Washington (D.C.)
Germany
United States
- Contents
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Capitals in modern history: inventing urban spaces for the nation / Andreas W. Daum
Siting federal capitals: the American and German debates / Kenneth R. Bowling and Ulrike Gerhard
Written capitals and capital topography: Berlin and Washington in travel literature / Walter Erhart
Prime meridians, national time, and the symbolic authority of capitals in the nineteenth century / Martin H. Geyer
Washington and Berlin: national capitals in a networked world / Carl Abbott
State, volk, and monumental architecture in Nazi-era Berlin / Dietmar Schirmer
Monuments of catastrophe: Holocaust architecture in Washington and Berlin / Janet Ward
Capital gardens: the Mall and the Tiergarten in comparative perspective / Christof Mauch
Socialism on display: East Berlin as a capital / Brian Ladd
Washington under Federal rule, 1871-1945 / Alan H. Lessoff
"Everyday" protest and the culture of conflict in Berlin, 1830-1980 / Belinda Davis
Marches on Washington and the creation of national public spaces, 1894 to the present / Lucy G. Barber.
- Other Authors/Editors
- Daum, Andreas W.
Mauch, Christof.
- Notes
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Capitals in modern history: inventing urban spaces for the nation / Andreas W. Daum -- Siting federal capitals: the American and German debates / Kenneth R. Bowling and Ulrike Gerhard -- Written capitals and capital topography: Berlin and Washington in travel literature / Walter Erhart -- Prime meridians, national time, and the symbolic authority of capitals in the nineteenth century / Martin H. Geyer -- Washington and Berlin: national capitals in a networked world / Carl Abbott -- State, volk, and monumental architecture in Nazi-era Berlin / Dietmar Schirmer -- Monuments of catastrophe: Holocaust architecture in Washington and Berlin / Janet Ward -- Capital gardens: the Mall and the Tiergarten in comparative perspective / Christof Mauch -- Socialism on display: East Berlin as a capital / Brian Ladd -- Washington under Federal rule, 1871-1945 / Alan H. Lessoff -- "Everyday" protest and the culture of conflict in Berlin, 1830-1980 / Belinda Davis -- Marches on Washington and the creation of national public spaces, 1894 to the present / Lucy G. Barber.
