The Vertigo Years
Change and Culture in the West, 1900-1914
(Sprache: Englisch)
A panorama of Europe, 1900-1914, describing the cultural, economic and political life before the First World War.
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A panorama of Europe, 1900-1914, describing the cultural, economic and political life before the First World War.
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Europe, early in the twentieth century: a world adrift, a pulsating era of creativity and contradictions. The hot topics of the day - terrorism and globalisation, immigration, consumerism, the lack of moral values and rivalling superpowers - could make one forget that it is a century ago that this era vanished in the trenches of the Somme, of Ypres, and of Passchendaele. Or did it? The closer one looks, the more this world seems like ours: feminism and quantum thedory, atonal music and democratisation, mass communication and commercial branding, genetics, state-sponsored genocide, colonialism, consumerism and racism, radioactivity and psychoanalysis are all terms first used during this period.This was a time radically unlike the Victorian era that preceded it, a time in which old certainties broke down and many people lost their bearings. At the heart of this vibrant Europe, was a contradiction that would cause its collapse: the new, modern world of mass production, urban life, technological warfare and a rapidly growing working class was still ruled by men - Kaiser Wilhelm, Tsar Nicolas II, and the Austro-Hungarian Emperor Francis Joseph among them - who thought in the chivalric and paternalistic categories of earlier generations, prefering the image of dashing cavalry officers to the prosaic slaughter of the machine gun, and national mythology to political cohesion and democracy. The eventual scope of the catastrophe often obscures the fact that the great cultural divide in Europe's history lies before 1914. This book will bring to life the immediacy of the lives and issues of this fascinating and flawed period.
Autoren-Porträt von Philipp Blom
Blom, PhilippPhilipp Blom was born in Hamburg and trained as an historian in Vienna and Oxford. He is the author of TO HAVE AND TO HOLD a history of collectors and collecting and ENCYCLOPEDIA. He writes regularly for journals and newspapers in Europe and the United States. He lives in Vienna.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Philipp Blom
- 2008, 480 Seiten, Maße: 24,2 cm, Gebunden, Englisch
- Verlag: W&N
- ISBN-10: 0297852329
- ISBN-13: 9780297852322
- Erscheinungsdatum: 22.01.2009
Sprache:
Englisch
Pressezitat
an ambitious book - a one-volume assessment of the gravity-eroding, giddying sweep of European cultural, social, political and spiritual change that permeated the first 15 years of teh 2oth century. But Philipp Blom has pulled it off triumphantly... a work of narrative history at its best. JULIET NICOLSON THE GUARDIAN
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