Nineteenth-Century Europe: A Cultural History Paperback - 2008 - 1st Edition
by Salmi, Prof Hannu
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Details
- Title Nineteenth-Century Europe: A Cultural History
- Author Salmi, Prof Hannu
- Binding Paperback
- Edition number 1st
- Edition 1
- Condition Used - Very Good
- Pages 224
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Polity Press, United Kingdom
- Date 2008-11-01
- Features Bibliography, Index, Table of Contents
- Bookseller's Inventory # GOR006014478
- ISBN 9780745643601 / 0745643604
- Weight 0.6 lbs (0.27 kg)
- Dimensions 8.4 x 5.3 x 0.6 in (21.34 x 13.46 x 1.52 cm)
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 19th Century
- Cultural Region: Central Europe
- Cultural Region: Eastern Europe
- Cultural Region: Western Europe
- Library of Congress subjects History, Intellectual life
- Dewey Decimal Code 940.28
From the rear cover
The book attempts to see the culture of the nineteenth century in broad terms, integrating everyday ways of life into the story as mental, material and social practices. It also highlights ways of thinking, mentalities and emotions in order to construct a picture of this period of another kind, that goes beyond a story of "isms" or intellectual and artistic movements.
Although the nineteenth century has often been described as a century of rising factory pipes and grey industrial cities, as a cradle of modern culture, the era has many faces. This book pays special attention to the experiences of contemporaries, from the fear for steaming engines to the longing for the pre-industrial past, from the idle calmness of bourgeois life to the awakening consumerism of the department stores, from curious exoticism to increasing xenophobia, from optimistic visions of future to the expectations of an approaching end. The century that is only a few generations away from us is strange and familiar at the same time - a bygone world that has in many ways influenced our present day world.
