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Accelerate! - A History of the 1990s (Hardcover)
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Accelerate! - A History of the 1990s (Hardcover)
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Loot Price R526
Discovery Miles 5 260
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The 1990s was the decade in which the Soviet Union collapsed and
Francis Fukuyama declared the 'end of history'. Nelson Mandela was
released from prison, Google was launched and scientists in
Edinburgh cloned a sheep from a single cell. It was also a time in
which the president of the United States discussed fellatio on
network television and the world's most photographed woman died in
a car crash in Paris. Radical pop band The KLF burned a million
quid on a Scottish island, while the most-watched programme on TV
was Baywatch. Anti-globalisation protestors in France attacked
McDonald's restaurants and American survivalists stockpiled guns
and tinned food in preparation for Y2K. For those who lived through
it, the 1990s glow in the memory with a mixture of proximity and
distance, familiarity and strangeness. It is the decade about which
we know so much yet understand too little. Taking a kaleidoscopic
view of the politics, social history, arts and popular culture of
the era, James Brooke-Smith asks - what was the 1990s? A lost
golden age of liberal optimism? A time of fin-de-siecle decadence?
Or the seedbed for the discontents we face today?
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