The Vertigo Years : Europe 1900-1914
The Vertigo Years : Europe 1900-1914
Philipp Blom holds a doctorate from Oxford University and is the author of To Have and To Hold and Enlightening the World. He frequently contributes articles to The Financial Times, The Independent, and The Guardian among others. He lives in Vienna.
Guardian
"The vertiginous atmosphere of a tumbling prewar society - at the
same time exciting and frightening - is described with atmospheric
clarity. The combination of easily worn scholarship, fascinating
character studies and fluent story-telling that is often very funny
makes this a hugely enjoyable and illuminating book....A work of
narrative history at its best."
The Economist
"Impressive and thought-provoking....encapsulate[s] complex
historical and biographical events pithily and in an illuminating
context...The book brings the fears, enthusiasms and blindspots of
the period brilliantly to life."Globe and Mail
"In this enthralling, panoramic sweep of the 15 years preceding the
First World War, Blom convincingly argues that it was this decade
and a half that truly marked the start of the modern age, with all
its grandeur and calamities.... With his impressive synthesis of
historical literature, old and recent, and his finely drawn
portraits of both emperors and workers, Blom's Vertigo Years will
surely enlighten and interest another generation of readers in an
era far in the past, yet worth understanding all the same."
"Guardian"
"The vertiginous atmosphere of a tumbling prewar society - at the
same time exciting and frightening - is described with atmospheric
clarity. The combination of easily worn scholarship, fascinating
character studies and fluent story-telling that is often very funny
makes this a hugely enjoyable and illuminating book....A work of
narrative history at its best."
"The Economist"
"Impressive and thought-provoking....encapsulate[s] complex
historical and biographical events pithily and in an illuminating
context...The book brings the fears, enthusiasms and blindspots of
the period brilliantly to life.""Globe and Mail"
"In this enthralling, panoramic sweep of the 15 years preceding the
First World War, Blom convincingly argues that it was this decade
and a half that truly marked the start of the modern age, with all
its grandeur and calamities.... With his impressive synthesis of
historical literature, old and recent, and his finely drawn
portraits of both emperors and workers, Blom's "Vertigo Years" will
surely enlighten and interest another generation of readers in an
era far in the past, yet worth understanding all the same."
CultureBot.org
"Blom is an amazingly talented writer who seamlessly draws the
cultural and philosophical connections between art, science,
politics, culture, literature and society as a whole... Two thumbs
WAY UP for "The Vertigo Years"."
"Guardian"
"The vertiginous atmosphere of a tumbling prewar society - at the
same time exciting and frightening - is described with atmospheric
clarity. The combination of easily worn scholarship, fascinating
character studies and fluent story-telling that is often very funny
makes this a hugely enjoyable and illuminating book....A work of
narrative history at its best."
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