Fin de siècle and its legacy /

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Other Authors: Teich, Mikuláš, Porter, Roy, 1946-2002
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1990.
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Table of Contents:
  • A legacy of fin-de-siècle capitalism : the giant company / Alice Teichova
  • Fin de siècle : industrial transformation / Alfred D. Chandler, Jr.
  • The electrical century : the beginnings of electricity supply in Austria / Roman Sandgruber (translated from German by Richard Hockaday)
  • Heralds of modernity : cars and planes from invention to necessity / Richard Overy
  • Nationalism, anti-semitism, socialism and political Catholicism as expressions of mass politics in the twentieth century / Enzo Collotti (translated from Italian by Mario di Gregorio)
  • Mass media and culture in fin-de-siècle Europe / Patrick Brantlinger
  • Forward race and the laughter of pygmies : on Olympic sport / Henning Eichberg (translated from German by Maureen Cottrell).
  • Photography, cinematography and the theatre : a history of a relationship / Barbara Lesák (translated from German by Richard Hockaday)
  • Fin-de-siècle painting / Jennifer Birkett
  • Personalities and principles : aspects of literature and life in fin-de-siècle England / Alison Hennegan
  • Heroes, meadows and machinery : fin-de-siècle music / Fritz Weber
  • The transformation of physics / Erwin N. Hiebert
  • A feeling for the 'whole' : the holistic reaction in neurology from the fin de siècle to the interwar years / Anne Harrington
  • Biology and beauty : science and aesthetics in fin-de-siècle Germany / Kurt Bayertz (translated from German by Peter Germain)
  • The unmastered past of human genetics / Mikuláš Teich.