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The Vertigo Years

Philipp Blom

Europe, early in the twentieth century: a world adrift, a pulsating era of creativity and contradictions. But did this era vanish in the trenches of the Somme, of Ypres, and of Passchendaele? Look closer and the more this world seems like ours: feminism, democratisation, commercial branding, genetics, consumerism and racism, radioactivity and psychoanalysis are all terms first used during this period.

This was 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 that was still ruled by men who preferred 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 brings to life the immediacy of the lives and issues of this fascinating and flawed period

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  • Classification : History
  • Pub Date : AUG 1, 2009
  • Imprint : Phoenix
  • Page Extent : 480
  • Binding : PB
  • ISBN : 9780753825983
  • Price : INR 899
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Philipp Blom

Philipp Blom is the author of several award-winning books including A Wicked Company and The Vertigo Years which has been made into a three-part television documentary. A frequent lecturer at European and American universities he also contributes to international newspapers and hosts a radio show on Austrian national radio. Philipp Blom lives in Vienna.

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