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The vertigo years : Europe, 1900-1914

text The vertigo years : Europe, 1900-1914

Blom, Philipp

Summary
The twentieth century was born not in the trenches of the Somme, but rather in the fifteen years preceding World War I. In this short span of time, a new world order was emerging in ultimately tragic contradiction to the old. The major topics of t... Read more
Contents
1900 : the dynamo and the virgin -- 1901 : the changing of the guard -- 1902 : Oedipus Rex -- 1903 : a strange luminescence -- 1904 : His Majesty and Mister Morel -- 1905 : in all fury -- 1906 : dreadnought and anxiety -- 1907 : dreams and visions... Read more
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xi, 466 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm.
Publisher
Basic Books 2008
MARC Permalink

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Woodmere (Main Branch) 940.288 BLO in Adult Non-fiction Available

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