Fin de siècle and its legacy / edited by Mikuláš Teich and Roy Porter
1990, First Edition. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-dulled dust wrapper. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Item #433639
ISBN: 0521341086
Physical description; xii, 345 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references and index. 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. 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. Subjects; 1800-1999. 19th-20th centuries. History, Modern 19th century. History, Modern 20th century. History. History, Modern. Civilization, Modern 19th century. Civilization, Modern 20th century. Science History 19th century. European history.
Price: €18.95