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Fracture: Life and Culture in the West 1918-1938 by Philipp Blom
$29.99 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
A sweeping and vibrant history of Europe and America during the inter-war years, by the acclaimed author of The Vertigo Years.
Fracture: Life and Culture in the West, 1918-1938 by Philipp Blom
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
When the Great War ended in 1918, the West was broken. Religious faith, patriotism and the belief in human progress had all been called into question by the mass carnage experienced by both sides. Shell shocked and traumatized, the West faced a world it no longer recognized: the old order had collapsed, ...Show more
Nature's Mutiny: How the Little Ice Age Transformed the West and Shaped the Present by Philipp Blom
$22.99 AUD
Category: History
'Europe where the sun dares scarce appearFor freezing meteors and congealed cold.' Christopher MarloweIn this innovative and compelling work of environmental history, Philipp Blom chronicles the great climate crisis of the 1600s, a crisis that would transform the entire social and political fabric of Eu ...Show more
The Vertigo Years - Change and Culture in the West 1900-1914 by Philipp Blom
$35.00 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
Europe, early in the twentieth century: a world adrift, a pulsating era of creativity and contradictions. But did this era vanish in the trenches of the Somme, of Ypres, and of Passchendaele? Look closer and the more this world seems like ours: feminism, democratisation, commercial branding, genetics, c ...Show more
Twilight of the Romanovs: A Photographic Odyssey Across Imperial Russia by Philipp Blom
$70.00 AUD
Category: Photography
"Twilight of the Romanovs" opens a door onto the world of pre-revolutionary Russia in original photographs taken during the last decades of Romanov rule. They include many remarkable colour images created using an early three-colourplate technique; these bring the remote past to life with an especially ...Show more
Wicked Company: Freethinkers and Friendship in Pre-revolutionary Paris by Philipp Blom
$65.00 AUD
Category: History
Imagine the world's most brilliant and charismatic people around one dinner table, the greatest philosophers, novelists, scientists, actors and political activists - and imagine them joking one moment and then immersed in intense discussion broken by bursts of laughter. Imagine also that this astonishi ...Show more
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