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A review by kathleenitpdx
The Vertigo Years: Europe 1900-1914 by Philipp Blom
4.0
The years leading up to WWI-1900-1914 in Europe.
Exploring the culture, politics, science and events of that time.
"Fear and exhilaration formed an extraordinary creative tension, the origin of almost every idea and social phenomenon that would come to dominate the twentieth century -- socialism and fascism, nuclear physics and the theory of relativity, conceptual art and consumer society, mass media and democratization, feminism and psychoanalysis."
Exploring the culture, politics, science and events of that time.
"Fear and exhilaration formed an extraordinary creative tension, the origin of almost every idea and social phenomenon that would come to dominate the twentieth century -- socialism and fascism, nuclear physics and the theory of relativity, conceptual art and consumer society, mass media and democratization, feminism and psychoanalysis."