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Death in Berlin
Monica Black
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Description for Death in Berlin
Paperback. Death in Berlin traces rituals and perceptions surrounding death from the Weimar Republic to the building of the Berlin Wall. Series: Publications of the German Historical Institute. Num Pages: 326 pages, 24 b/w illus. BIC Classification: HBJD; HBLW; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 480.
We tend to think of death as a basic and immutable fact of life. Yet death, too, has a history. Death in Berlin traces the rituals, practices, perceptions, and sensibilities surrounding death in the context of Berlin's multiple transformations over the decades between Germany's defeat in World War I and the construction of the Berlin Wall. Evocatively illustrated and drawing on a rich collection of sources, Monica Black reveals the centrality of death to the evolving moral and social life of one metropolitan community. In doing so, she connects the intimacies of everyday life and death to events on the ... Read more
We tend to think of death as a basic and immutable fact of life. Yet death, too, has a history. Death in Berlin traces the rituals, practices, perceptions, and sensibilities surrounding death in the context of Berlin's multiple transformations over the decades between Germany's defeat in World War I and the construction of the Berlin Wall. Evocatively illustrated and drawing on a rich collection of sources, Monica Black reveals the centrality of death to the evolving moral and social life of one metropolitan community. In doing so, she connects the intimacies of everyday life and death to events on the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Cambridge University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
326
Condition
New
Series
Publications of the German Historical Institute
Number of Pages
326
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781107696310
SKU
V9781107696310
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About Monica Black
Monica Black is Assistant Professor of History at Furman University. She was awarded the Fritz Stern Dissertation Prize by the Friends of the German Historical Institute, Washington, DC, in 2007 and has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Council on Germany, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation/Council for Library and Information Resources, and others.
Reviews for Death in Berlin
'This is a first-rate and pioneering account of how Germany's 'culture of death' served as a charged intersection of the personal and political in the middle decades of the last century.' Paul Betts, University of Sussex 'With great originality and alertness to detail and perspective, Monica Black explores how the dead were buried in a twentieth-century lifetime of mass murder. ... Read more