De duizelingwekkende jaren : Europa 1900-1914 / Philipp Blom.

De duizelingwekkende jaren : Europa 1900-1914 / Philipp Blom.

Translated Title
The vertigo years : change and culture in the West, 1900-1914

By
Blom, Philipp, 1970-

Publication Date
2008-2009

Publication Information
Amsterdam, Ne. : De Bezige Bij,

Physical Description
560 p., [8] p. of plates : col. ill.

Subject Term
Dutch literature.

Geographic Term
Europe -- History -- 1871-1918.
 
Europe -- Civilization -- 20th century.

Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.

Summary
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.

Language
Dutch

ISBN
9789023440604


LibraryCollectionCollectionCall NumberStatus
St. John's - A.C. Hunter (SJH)Adult NFic MultilingualAdult Non-Fiction MultilingualDUT 940.28 B62Checked In