Brian Ladd
Autor von The Ghosts of Berlin: Confronting German History in the Urban Landscape
Über den Autor
Brian Ladd, an urban historian, is a research associate at the University at Albany, State University of New York.
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- Geburtstag
- 1957-09-20
- Geschlecht
- male
- Nationalität
- USA
- Geburtsort
- Ames, Iowa, USA
- Ausbildung
- Grinnell College (BA | 1979)
Yale University (MA | 1980)
Yale University (MPhil | 1982)
Yale University (PhD | 1986) - Organisationen
- American Historical Association
German Studies Association
Planning History Group
Urban History Association
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Also excellent was the way the author explained the controversies related to the decisions by successive governments on what to keep, what to tear down, what to replace and how - and believe me, everything was a controversy. And rightly so. A monument to communism looks like a monument to oppression in the eyes of a West Berliner, but a decision to remove a monument to communism says to East Berliners that their personal history is of no value.
I've used this book a few times to take N to interesting places and then read the related snippets aloud, and it's been a successful form of low-key walking tour.… (mehr)