PART I - CITIES AS CAPITALS ON A GLOBAL SCALE

1 - Capitals in Modern History: Inventing Urban Spaces for the Nation

pp 3-28

PART II - THE CAPITAL IN THE NATION

2 - Siting Federal Capitals: The American and German Debates

pp 31-50

3 - Written Capitals and Capital Topography: Berlin and Washington in Travel Literature

pp 51-78

4 - Prime Meridians, National Time, and the Symbolic Authority of Capitals in the Nineteenth Century

pp 79-100

5 - Washington and Berlin: National Capitals in a Networked World

pp 101-124

PART III - ARCHITECTURE, MEMORY, SPACE

6 - State, Volk, and Monumental Architecture in Nazi-Era Berlin

pp 127-154

7 - Monuments of Catastrophe: Holocaust Architecture in Washington and Berlin

pp 155-200

8 - Capital Gardens: The Mall and the Tiergarten in Comparative Perspective

pp 201-216

9 - Socialism on Display: East Berlin as a Capital

pp 217-232

PART IV - POLITICAL POWER AND CAPITAL FUNCTIONS

10 - Washington Under Federal Rule, 1871-1945

pp 235-262

11 - “Everyday” Protest and the Culture of Conflict in Berlin, 1830-1980

pp 263-284

12 - Marches on Washington and the Creation of National Public Spaces, 1894 to the Present

pp 285-304

Index

pp 305-318