The Vertigo Years. Der taumelnde Kontinent, englische Ausgabe - Blom, Philipp
The Vertigo Years. Der taumelnde Kontinent, englische Ausgabe - Blom, Philipp Europe, early in the twentieth century: a world adrift, a pulsating era of creativity and contradictions. Look closer and…
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The Vertigo Years. Der taumelnde Kontinent, englische Ausgabe - Blom, Philipp
Europe, early in the twentieth century: a world adrift, a pulsating era of creativity and contradictions. 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. But did this era vanish in the trenches of the Somme, of Ypres, and of Passchendaele?
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. This was a time in which old certainties broke down and many people lost their bearings. The eventual scope