The vertigo years : change and culture in the West, 1900-1914 / Philipp Blom.
The vertigo years : change and culture in the West, 1900-1914 / Philipp Blom.
The vertigo years : change and culture in the West, 1900-1914 / Philipp Blom.
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Publisher
London : Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2008.
Date
2008.
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N940.288/4
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Language
English
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Physical content
xi, 466 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm.
Contents
1. 1900: The Dynamo and the Virgin -- 2. 1901: The Changing of the Guard -- 3. 1902: Oedipus Rex -- 4. 1903: A Strange Luminescence -- 5. 1904: His Majesty and Mister Morel -- 6. 1905: In All Fury -- 7. 1906: Dreadnought and Anxiety -- 8. 1907: Dreams and Visions -- 9. 1908: Ladies with Rocks -- 10....
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Publisher
London : Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2008.
Place of Publication
England
Date Published
2008.
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Summary
"From the tremendous hope for a new century embodied in the 1900 World Fair in Paris to the assassination of a Habsburg archduke in Sarajevo in 1914, Philipp Blom chronicles this extraordinary epoch year by year. Prime ministers and peasants, anarchists and actresses, scientists and psychopaths intermingle on the stage of a new century in this port...
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The vertigo years : change and culture in the West, 1900-1914 / Philipp Blom.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 409-452) and index.
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N940.288/4
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74VMj8em8A2Z
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VMj8em8A2Z
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ISBN
0297852329 (hbk.)
9780297852322 (hbk.)
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940.288
MMS ID
991001204689702626
