| Description |
xii, 345 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
A legacy of fin-de-siècle capitalism : the giant company / Alice Teichova -- Fin de siècle : industrial transformation / Alfred D. Chandler, Jr. -- The electrical century : the beginnings of electricity supply in Austria / Roman Sandgruber (translated from German by Richard Hockaday) -- Heralds of modernity : cars and planes from invention to necessity / Richard Overy -- Nationalism, anti-semitism, socialism and political Catholicism as expressions of mass politics in the twentieth century / Enzo Collotti (translated from Italian by Mario di Gregorio) -- Mass media and culture in fin-de-siècle Europe / Patrick Brantlinger -- Forward race and the laughter of pygmies : on Olympic sport / Henning Eichberg (translated from German by Maureen Cottrell) -- Photography, cinematography and the theatre: a history of a relationship / Barbara Lesák (translated from German by Richard Hockaday) -- Fin-de-siècle England / Alison Hennegan -- Heroes, meadows and machinery: fin-de-siècle music / Fritz Weber -- The transformation of physics / Erwin N. Hiebert -- A feeling for the 'whole' : the holistic reaction in neurology from the fin de sièle to the interwar years / Anne Harrington -- Biology and beauty: science ans aesthetics in fin-de-siècle Germany / Kurt Bayertz (translated from German by Peter Germain) -- The unmastered past of human genetics / Mikuláš Teich |
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Photography, cinematography and the theatre : a history of a relationship / Barbara Lesák (translated from German by Richard Hockaday) -- Fin-de-siècle painting / Jennifer Birkett -- Personalities and principles : aspects of literature and life in fin-de-siècle England / Alison Hennegan -- Heroes, meadows and machinery : fin-de-siècle music / Fritz Weber -- The transformation of physics / Erwin N. Hiebert -- A feeling for the 'whole' : the holistic reaction in neurology from the fin de siècle to the interwar years / Anne Harrington -- Biology and beauty : science and aesthetics in fin-de-siècle Germany / Kurt Bayertz (translated from German by Peter Germain) -- The unmastered past of human genetics / Mikuláš Teich |
| Analysis |
Civilization History,1870-1914 |
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Europe |
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Civilization History,1870-1914 |
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Europe |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
History, Modern -- 19th century.
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History, Modern -- 20th century.
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Science -- Europe -- History.
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History.
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| SUBJECT |
Europe -- Civilization -- 19th century.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85045639
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Europe -- Civilization -- 20th century.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85045640
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Europe -- Intellectual life -- 19th century.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85045729
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Europe -- Intellectual life -- 20th century.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85045730
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| Author |
Porter, Roy, 1946-2002.
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Teich, Mikuláš.
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| LC no. |
89022347 |
| ISBN |
0521341086 hardcover : covers |
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052134915X paperback |
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9780521341080 hardcover : covers |
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9780521349154 paperback |
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