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Faustâ€™s Metropolis: A History of Berlin

By (author) Alexandra Richie

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â€˜Beautifully conceived and marvellously researched. I havenâ€™t read a better book on Berlin.â€™ Gordon A. Craig In Berlin, history is tangible. The sense of the past â€“ of Europe, of Germany, and of the 20th-centuryâ€™s myths, depravities, idealism and horror â€“ hangs in the air around the old Hinterhofs and deserted railway stations. No other city has played such a part in the tides of 20th-century European affairs. â€˜Faustâ€™s Metropolisâ€™ follows the rich and inspiring history of this city: from the revolutionary fervour of its teeming slums, the insufferable pomp of Imperial Berlin, and the frantic modernism of Weimar to the brutality of the Nazis and the symbolic defeat of Communism as the Wall came down. Writing superbly of Berlinâ€™s role as a crucible of change, Alexandra Richie reveals herself as an extraordinary new talent.

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The Colonialist: The Vision of Cecil Rhodes

William Kelleher Storey
Paperback / softback
528 pages
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This first comprehensive biography of Cecil Rhodes in a generation illuminates Rhodesâ€™s vision for the expansion of imperialism in southern Africa, connecting politics and industry to internal development, and examines how this fueled a lasting, white-dominated colonial society.

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