Berlin under the New Empire: Volume 1
Its Institutions, Inhabitants, Industry, Monuments, Museums, Social Life, Manners, and Amusements

Originally published in 1879, this highly illustrated two-volume work offers a detailed portrait of the new German Empire's capital city.

Henry Vizetelly (Author)

9781108064897, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 5 September 2013

486 pages, 219 b/w illus.
22.9 x 15.2 x 2.8 cm, 0.71 kg

In the wake of German unification in 1871, Berlin became a place of increased interest to the other nations of Europe. The journalist Henry Vizetelly (1820–94) made his first journey to the capital of the new empire in 1872. Based on observations from a series of visits, this two-volume work presents a witty and detailed portrait of the city and its inhabitants. In Volume 1, Vizetelly describes travelling to Berlin and his mixed first impressions. He sketches a brief history of the city and its development from the thirteenth century onwards, and in a series of essay-style chapters he discusses aspects of Berlin culture and society - including dinner-party etiquette - as well as political and military personalities. Illustrated with hundreds of engravings from designs by German artists, the work first appeared in 1879. Vizetelly's Paris in Peril (1882) and Glances Back Through Seventy Years (1893) are also reissued in this series.

Preface
1. En route
2. First impressions of Berlin
3. Ancient Berlin
4. Development of Berlin
5. Modern Berlin
6. The Berlinese in society
7. The Berlinese at home
8. Berlin wird Weltstadt
9. Unter den Linden
10. The Thiergarten
11. Berlin en fete
12. The autumn military manoeuvres
13. Wilhelm I
14. Scions of the house of Hohenzollern
15. Reichs-Kanzler von Bismarck
16. Prussian generals
17. The Prussian army
18. The Prussian army (cont.)
19. The Prussian army (cont.)
20. The Prussian army (cont.)
21. The Prussian army (cont.)
22. War schools
Appendix.

Subject Areas: European history [HBJD]