Rites of Spring: The Great War and the Birth of the Modern Age (Audiobook)

from kylepotter

The first few chapters a a bit dense, but this is an excellent book on the long-reaching effects of WWI on 20th century life and thought.

from kylepotter

The first few chapters a a bit dense, but this is an excellent book on the long-reaching effects of WWI on 20th century life and thought.

from tungsten_peerts

Just a specific: anyone who thinks Eksteins went off-course by linking Nazism with kitsch needs to watch video of recent Scientology 'events'.

from gordon361

Modris Eksteins' [Rites of Spring] is not a history of WWI. It is a review of the causes and consequences of the Great War from social rather than political perspectives. The title comes from Stravinsky's ballet which Eksteins claims ushered in the Modern Age and gave encouragement for the confli...

from kant1066

Much ink has been spilled in trying to locate the fons et origo of modernism, and Modris Eksteins is not the first historian to suggest that it occurred on or about the evening of May 29, 1913 at the Paris premiere of Stravinsky's "Le Sacre du Printemps." Eksteins' social history, however, is as ...