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| Original Title: | The Vertigo Years: Europe 1900-1914 |
| ISBN: | 0771016417 (ISBN13: 9780771016417) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Literary Awards: | Hessell-Tiltman Prize Nominee (2008) |
Philipp Blom
Paperback | Pages: 480 pages Rating: 3.97 | 1104 Users | 127 Reviews
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| Title | : | The Vertigo Years: Change and Culture in the West, 1900-1914 |
| Author | : | Philipp Blom |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 480 pages |
| Published | : | October 13th 2009 by Emblem Editions (first published August 1st 2008) |
| Categories | : | History. Nonfiction. European History. War. World War I |
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The most breathtaking work of history since Paris 1919.Europe, early in the 20th century: a world adrift, a pulsating era of creativity and contradictions. The hot topics of the day — terrorism and globalization, immigration, consumerism, the lack of moral values, and rivaling superpowers — could make one forget that it is a century ago that this era vanished into the trenches of the Somme and Vimy Ridge.
Or did it? The closer one looks, the more this world seems like ours, the more one sees that the questions and realities shaping our lives and thoughts were formulated and laid down at the beginning of the 20th century: feminism, democratization, mass communication, commercial branding, consumerism, state-sponsored genocide, and psychoanalysis were all concepts birthed in this period. This was a time radically unlike the Victorian era that preceded it, a time in which all the old certainties broke down. Philipp Blom succeeds in bringing to life the immediacy of the lives and issues of this fascinating, flawed pre-war period.
Through a series of historical vignettes, each chapter focusing on one particularly telling event for every year from 1900 to 1914, The Vertigo Years discovers the great people, powers, and ideas of Europe after 1900. The approach is eclectic, brilliantly combining the novelist’s eye with the craft of the historian. It opens up this era in all its contradictions and similarities to our own.
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Ratings: 3.97 From 1104 Users | 127 ReviewsCrit Appertaining To Books The Vertigo Years: Change and Culture in the West, 1900-1914
The Vertigo Years is a thematic exploration of the world before the Great War. The events of each year of the period inspires the contemplation of a different theme.1900: France1901: Europe's aristocrats in their twilight of greatness1902: Austria-Hungary and Sigmund Freud's psychoanalysis1903: the new science, particularly physics1904: the Europeans in Africa, particularly the Belgians in the Congo1905: Russia1906: Europe's militaries1907: the Bohemian fringe: pacifists, nudists, MadameI've read another history book by this author that I loved, Enlightening the World, about Diderot's great Encyclopedie, so I was excited to come across this cultural history of fin-de-siecle and early 20th century Europe. Blom is a terrific, exciting writer who does an excellent job of picking out the most astonishing and telling of anecdotes. Each chapter takes one year of the period as a jumping off point for a theme (such as scientific discoveries, colonial horrors, the decaying nobility,
As a work of history, this is, frankly, an intelligent entertainment rather than anything more analytically stimulating but it is good at what it does. Each chapter is a year but this is a little misleading because the year is just an excuse to delve into two or three thematic stories.The overall thesis is perhaps overstretched - that 1900-1914 was particularly 'vertiginous' and contained all the seeds of modernity. In fact, all periods can be presented as vertiginous in their own way and all
After reading numerous non-fiction books dealing with the infamous European history of the first half of the 20th century, I thought I deserved a break from all this madness, atrocities, and right-out horror. So I decided to read The Vertigo Years, a book about the so-called Belle Epoche, expecting it to be a light read about golden times and containing an abundance of entertaining juicy stories.Mind you, I had read several reviews of this book and, thus, should have known better. But this had
I'm reading the news about investigation of the death in 2013 of some Japanese girl who worked as a journalist. And they say that this happened because of extreme overwork and exhaustion. Then in "The Vertigo Years" I read about a new phenomenon born in XXth century: neurosis caused by high workload... The next news in today's feed is a massacre in Las Vegas when a single man killed more than 50 people. The same day I read in the book about Ernst Wagner, a silent and descent school teacher who
As I have read this book thanks to Kris Rabberman, it is to her that I shall dedicate my review. And since it is also her birthday today (January 22nd), this is my gift to her.This book has a smart and clear structure. Blom has taken the fifteen years that preceded WW1 and surveyed the key cultural and social aspects that, mostly in Europe, accompanied the political events that led to the declaration of the Great War. These were times of rapid change. The relative political and diplomatic weight
I've read another history book by this author that I loved, Enlightening the World, about Diderot's great Encyclopedie, so I was excited to come across this cultural history of fin-de-siecle and early 20th century Europe. Blom is a terrific, exciting writer who does an excellent job of picking out the most astonishing and telling of anecdotes. Each chapter takes one year of the period as a jumping off point for a theme (such as scientific discoveries, colonial horrors, the decaying nobility,
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