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United City, Divided Memories?: Cold War Legacies in Contemporary Berlin

United City, Divided Memories?: Cold War Legacies in Contemporary Berlin

by Dirk Verheyen (Author)

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    Paperback 2010

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Synopsis

United City, Divided Memories? focuses on the basic question of how Berlin today deals with three specific Cold War era legacies: the presence of the four Great Powers, the East German Stasi, and the Berlin Wall. Dirk Verheyen studies monuments, museums, and memorial sites as illustrations of Berlin's struggle to craft an effective shared identity that ties together its western and eastern halves.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 320
 Edition: 1
 Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: 01 May 2010
ISBN 10: 0739118404
ISBN 13: 9780739118405

Media Reviews
Each topic is very thoroughly documented, weaving together historical information and current political debates surrounding memorial sites....Highly valuable as a chronicle of the politics of memory....Recommended. Two-star review. * CHOICE, March 2009 *
Dirk Verheyen has written a fascinating, exhaustive analysis of the evolving and conflicting memories of the Cold War memorialized by the most controversial monuments and museums in Berlin. He is at his best in his demonstration of the ongoing controversies. -- Robert Billinger, Wingate University * Reviews *
Verheyen's book is a useful and welcome history of reunified Germany's troubled capital over the last two decades. * American Historical Review, October 2009 *
Anyone who has been in Berlin over the past decade will recognize the diverse and frequently contradictory emotions that politicians, intellectuals, architects, and pundits have evoked in their efforts to bring the city together again. Dirk Verheyen has written a thoughtful and perceptive book that captures the complexity of these endeavors and that is always sensitive to the challenges all human beings face in wrestling with historical memory. This study will be of interest not only to those who are fascinated with Berlin, but also to anyone who seeks to make sense of the multiple, overlapping histories that continue to challenge Germany as a whole. -- A. James McAdams, director, Nanovic Institute for European Studies, University of Notre Dame
Author Bio
Dirk Verheyen is the academic director of the FU-BEST (Berlin European Studies) Program at Freie Universitat Berlin.