Reading Berlin 1900

By Peter Fritzsche

Book Overview

The great cities of the turn of the 20th century were built stone by stone, but were experienced story by story. The built city was mediated by words - newspapers, advertisements, signs, and schedules - by which the inhabitants lived, dreamed, imagined their surroundings. In this study of the text of urban modernism - the newspaper page - Peter Fritzsche analyzes how reading and writing dramatized Imperial Berlin.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674748816
• ISBN13: 9780674748811
• Release Date: April 1996
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 308 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.8" x 8.5"