The Vertigo Years, (Paperback)

from MichaelHodges

One of the best background readings to the causation of WW1

from Schmerguls

4614. The Vertigo Years Europe, 1900-1914, by Philipp Blom (read 2 Sep 2009) This is a book, by a German-born author, which discusses what happened in some aspects of European life during the years indicated. Much is intellectual history, some of which was of interest and some of which was not. T...

from Schmerguls

4614. The Vertigo Years Europe, 1900-1914, by Philipp Blom (read 2 Sep 2009) This is a book, by a German-born author, which discusses what happened in some aspects of European life during the years indicated. Much is intellectual history, some of which was of interest and some of which was not. T...

from Shrike58

Attempting to write of Europe prior to World War I while adopting the pose that the Twentieth Century was an unwritten book, Blom's overarching response is that this was no "Belle Epoch" but a century that started out compromised. Compromised by its bewilderment that scientific rationality and ec...

from kant1066

"The Vertigo Years," much like Blom's earlier "Wicked Company," is a history for the general reader who wants to gain a feel for the general Zeitgeist of fin-de-siècle Western Europe coming up through the beginning of World War I. If you desire a history of something specifically with "the events...