ISBN10: 1571811400, ISBN13: 9781571811400, [publisher: Berghahn Books] Softcover nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - 'This set of essays by leading scholars in the field aims to provide an overview of current work on what has sometimes been dubbed 'the birth of modernity' in fin-de-siècle Central Europe. This it succeeds admirably in doing, and editor Steven Beller will be thanked by many teachers of the subject of producing such a useful collection. - German History'In the not exactly small field of works on the Vienna Fin-de-Siècle this volume represents an important milestone. It will be indispensable, for a long time, for the debate it pushes forward and to which it contributes so much itself.' - H-Soz-u-Kult '. . . tight and coherent . . . not only because its eleven contributors focus on a single metropolis, but also because they generally share a common point of departure if not necessarily a common point of view.' - German Studies Review Fin-de-siècle Vienna remains a central event in the birth of the century's modern culture. Our understanding of what happened in those key decades in Central Europe at the turn of the century has been shaped in the last years by an historiography presided over by Carl Schorske's Fin de Siècle Vienna and the model of the relationship between politics and culture which emerged from his work and that of his followers. Recent scholarship, however, has ...
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