Constructing Imperial Berlin: Photography and the Metropolis
Miriam Paeslack


Paperback | Apr 2019 | University of Minnesota Press | 232pp | 254x178mm | RFB

This is the first book to critically assess, contextualize, and frame urban and architectural photographs of Berlin's crucial Imperial years between 1871 and 1918. Imperial Berlin emerges as a modern metropolis, only half-heartedly inhibited by urban preservationist concerns and rather more akin to North American cities in their bold industrialization and competing urban expansions than to European counterparts.