Fin De Siecle And Other Essays On America And Europe

Author : Walter Laqueur
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351292307
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fin de Siecle and Other Essays on America and Europe written by Walter Laqueur and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-01-18 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 2018. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an Informa company.

Author : Walter Laqueur
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 9781138510067
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fin de Siecle and Other Essays on America and Europe written by Walter Laqueur and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-02-05 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays collected in Fin de Si�cle and Other Essays on America and Europe cover the political and cultural spectrum of our time, specifically the rise, fall, and reemergence of radical movements of what was once called the extreme left and right. If the essays have a common denominator, it is that they do not join in the chorus of rejoicing after the end of the cold war. When the Soviet Empire collapsed and the cold war came to an end, there was a general celebration similar to the joy expressed after World Wars I and II. Walter Laqueur, in contrast to many of his peers, realized that Russia's and Eastern Europe's road to freedom would be, at best, protracted and arduous with many setbacks. And, as he shows, ten years after the reforms in the communist world, power, such as it is, is again in the hands of the communists, or of nationalists closely cooperating with communists. While they may not be old Stalinists, their style remains authoritarian, and no one can say for certain whether the conversion to democracy is lasting.Throughout Europe the extreme right has reemerged in force in France, Italy, Russia, and Austria these parties are among the strongest. While only a few years have passed since the demise of communism, there is already nostalgia among many in Russia with regard to the good old days, when vodka was cheap and order prevailed in the streets. In the West, the positive aspects of Nazism and fascism are being rediscovered. One might argue that it should have been obvious that the end of the cold war would in many ways create new and greater uncertainties rather than a new world order in international affairs. In certain nations, including the United States, there has been an unmistakable trend toward isolationism.How to explain such attitudes? In a brilliant assemblage of published and hitherto unpublished essays, Laqueur brings his concerns about these issues in a post-cold war environment. Essays include: "The Long Way to Europe," "Russian Nationalism," "In Praise of Menshevism," "The End of the Cold War," "Feuchtwanger and Gide," and "The Empire Strikes Out." Laqueur includes a profile of Andrei Sakharov, who played such a crucial role in the movement of democratic dissent in the Soviet Union. Fin de Si�cle and Other Essays on America and Europe will be of significant interest to historians of European and American culture, sociologists, economists, and political scientists.

Author : Michael Saler
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317604806
Total Pages : 1370 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Fin-de-Siècle World written by Michael Saler and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-11-20 with total page 1370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive and beautifully illustrated collection of essays conveys a vivid picture of a fascinating and hugely significant period in history, the Fin de Siècle. Featuring contributions from over forty international scholars, this book takes a thematic approach to a period of huge upheaval across all walks of life, and is truly innovative in examining the Fin de Siècle from a global perspective. The volume includes pathbreaking essays on how the period was experienced not only in Europe and North America, but also in China, Japan, the Middle East, Latin America, Africa, India, and elsewhere across the globe. Thematic topics covered include new concepts of time and space, globalization, the city, and new political movements including nationalism, the "New Liberalism", and socialism and communism. The volume also looks at the development of mass media over this period and emerging trends in culture, such as advertising and consumption, film and publishing, as well as the technological and scientific changes that shaped the world at the turn of the nineteenth century, such as the invention of the telephone, new transport systems, eugenics and physics. The Fin-de-Siècle World also considers issues such as selfhood through chapters looking at gender, sexuality, adolescence, race and class, and considers the importance of different religions, both old and new, at the turn of the century. Finally the volume examines significant and emerging trends in art, music and literature alongside movements such as realism and aestheticism. This volume conveys a vivid picture of how politics, religion, popular and artistic culture, social practices and scientific endeavours fitted together in an exciting world of change. It will be invaluable reading for all students and scholars of the Fin-de-Siècle period.

Author : Michael Saler
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317604814
Total Pages : 784 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Fin-de-Siècle World written by Michael Saler and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-11-20 with total page 784 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive and beautifully illustrated collection of essays conveys a vivid picture of a fascinating and hugely significant period in history, the Fin de Siècle. Featuring contributions from over forty international scholars, this book takes a thematic approach to a period of huge upheaval across all walks of life, and is truly innovative in examining the Fin de Siècle from a global perspective. The volume includes pathbreaking essays on how the period was experienced not only in Europe and North America, but also in China, Japan, the Middle East, Latin America, Africa, India, and elsewhere across the globe. Thematic topics covered include new concepts of time and space, globalization, the city, and new political movements including nationalism, the "New Liberalism", and socialism and communism. The volume also looks at the development of mass media over this period and emerging trends in culture, such as advertising and consumption, film and publishing, as well as the technological and scientific changes that shaped the world at the turn of the nineteenth century, such as the invention of the telephone, new transport systems, eugenics and physics. The Fin-de-Siècle World also considers issues such as selfhood through chapters looking at gender, sexuality, adolescence, race and class, and considers the importance of different religions, both old and new, at the turn of the century. Finally the volume examines significant and emerging trends in art, music and literature alongside movements such as realism and aestheticism. This volume conveys a vivid picture of how politics, religion, popular and artistic culture, social practices and scientific endeavours fitted together in an exciting world of change. It will be invaluable reading for all students and scholars of the Fin-de-Siècle period.

Author : Katherine Bowers
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 131638117X
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Russian Writers and the Fin de Siècle written by Katherine Bowers and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-06-17 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Russian literature has a reputation for gloomy texts, especially during the late nineteenth century. This volume argues that a 'fin-de-siècle' mood informed Russian literature long before the chronological end of the nineteenth century, in ways that had significant impact on the development of Russian realism. Some chapters consider ideas more readily associated with fin-de-siècle Europe such as degeneration theory, biodeterminism, Freudian psychoanalysis or apocalypticism, alongside earlier Russian realist texts by writers such as Turgenev, Dostoevsky or Tolstoy. Other chapters explore the changes that realism underwent as modernism emerged, examining later nineteenth-century or early twentieth-century texts in the context of the earlier realist tradition or their own cultural moment. Overall, a team of emerging and established scholars of Russian literature and culture present a wide range of creative and insightful readings that shed new light on later realism in all its manifestations.

Author : Max Paul Friedman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521683424
Total Pages : 373 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rethinking Anti-Americanism written by Max Paul Friedman and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-08-27 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book reveals how the concept of 'anti-Americanism' has been misused for over 200 years to stifle domestic dissent and dismiss foreign criticism.

Author : British Library of Political and Economic Science
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780415193009
Total Pages : 608 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ibss: Political Science: 1997 written by British Library of Political and Economic Science and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1999-01-14 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides an unrivalled overview of intellectual development in political science.

Author : Iain Stewart
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108484441
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Raymond Aron and Liberal Thought in the Twentieth Century written by Iain Stewart and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-11-07 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first historical account of Raymond Aron's role in the reconfiguration of liberal thought in the short twentieth century.

Author : Walter Laqueur
Publisher : UPNE
ISBN 13 : 1584658800
Total Pages : 403 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Best of Times, Worst of Times written by Walter Laqueur and published by UPNE. This book was released on 2012-07-03 with total page 403 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A memoir by a prominent and highly respected historian and political commentator

Author : A. Geppert
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230281834
Total Pages : 406 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fleeting Cities written by A. Geppert and published by Springer. This book was released on 2010-11-03 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Imperial expositions held in fin-de-siècle London, Paris and Berlin were knots in a world wide web. Conceptualizing expositions as meta-media, Fleeting Cities constitutes a transnational and transdisciplinary investigation into how modernity was created and displayed, consumed and disputed in the European metropolis around 1900.