Berlin under the New Empire: Volume 2
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)

9781108064903, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 5 September 2013

504 pages, 215 b/w illus.
22.9 x 15.2 x 2.9 cm, 0.73 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. The topics covered in Volume 2 include the Prussian Landtag, the Reichstag, Berlin's places of education, its palaces, churches and museums, and its restaurants, cafés and beer gardens. Chapters on theatre, music, satire and socialism give a vivid sense of the cultural and political zeitgeist. 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.

1. The Prussian Landtag
2. The Reichstag
3. Berlin elementary and middle schools
4. Berlin higher schools
5. Berlin universities
6. Berlin students
7. Berlin scepticism
8. The Schloss, imperial palaces, museums, and churches
9. The Rathaus and the Stadtrath
10. The Berlin Börse
11. The financial crash
12. The commerce and industry of Berlin
13. Berlin theatres
14. Music at Berlin
15. Cafés-chantants and Tanz-Saele
16. Restaurations
17. Bier-Lokalen and Bier-Gärten
18. Wein-Stuben, Conditoreien, and Delicatessen-Keller
19. Berlin markets
20. Berlin vehicles
21. The Berlin Feuerwehr
22. Berlin newspaper
23. Satire at Berlin
24. German socialism
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Subject Areas: European history [HBJD]