Death in Berlin : from Weimar to divided Germany / Monica Black, University of Tennessee, Knoxville.

  • Black, Monica, 1968-
Date:
2010
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Description

"Death in Berlin traces rituals and perceptions surrounding death from the Weimar Republic to the building of the Berlin Wall"--Provided by publisher.

"We tend to think of death as a basic and immutable fact of life. Yet death, too, has a history. Death in Berlin is the first study to trace 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 grand historical stage that changed the lives of millions - all in a city that stood at the center of some of the twentieth century's most transformative events"--Provided by publisher.

Publication/Creation

Washington, D.C. : German Historical Institute ; Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2010.

Physical description

xvi, 308 pages : black and white illustrations ; 24 cm.

Notes

Reprinted (with corrections) 2011.

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Death in Berlin, circa 1930 -- Nazi ways of death -- Death in everyday life -- Death and reckoning -- Death in socialism -- Death and the West.

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Where to find it

  • LocationStatus
    History of Medicine
    JIB.371.AA9
    Open shelves

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ISBN

  • 0521118514
  • 9780521118514