The Vertigo Years by Philipp Blom
Europe, 1900–1914
A panoramic account of Europe in the years before World War I that traces cultural, intellectual, scientific and political transformations between about 1900 and 1914. Through vivid portraits of artists, scientists, thinkers and politicians, it shows how optimism, technological innovation, social unrest and ideological radicalization combined to create a pervasive sense of vertigo that presaged the continent’s collapse into war. The narrative explains how modernism, mass politics and everyday anxieties intersected to reshape societies and set the stage for catastrophe.
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- 2008
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