Europe, 1900-1914: a world adrift, a pulsating era of creativity
and contradictions. The major topics of the day: terrorism,
globalization, immigration, consumerism, the collapse of moral
values, and the rivalry of superpowers. The twentieth century was
not born in the trenches of the Somme or Passchendaele--but rather
in the fifteen vertiginous years preceding World War I.
In this short span of time, a new world order was emerging in
ultimately tragic contradiction to the old. These were the years in
which the political and personal repercussions of the Industrial
Revolution were felt worldwide: Cities grew like never before as
people fled the countryside and their traditional identities;
science created new possibilities as well as nightmares; education
changed the outlook of millions of people; mass-produced items
transformed daily life; industrial laborers demanded a share of
political power; and women sought to change their place in
society--as well as the very fabric of sexual relations.
From the tremendous hope for a new century embodied in the 1900
World's Fair in Paris to the shattering assassination of a Habsburg
archduke in Sarajevo in 1914, historian Philipp Blom chronicles
this extraordinary epoch year by year. Prime Ministers and
peasants, anarchists and actresses, scientists and psychopaths
intermingle on the stage of a new century in this portrait of an
opulent, unstable age on the brink of disaster.
Beautifully written and replete with deftly told anecdotes, "The
Vertigo Years" brings the wonders, horrors, and fears of the early
twentieth century vividly to life.
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