- Summary
- The award-winning author of The Vertigo Years argues that in the aftermath of World War I, Western culture redirected energies into hedonistic, aesthetic and intellectual adventures of self-discovery in ways that triggered world-changing innovations.
- Variant Title
- Life and culture in the West, 1918-1938
- Format
- Book
- Author/Creator
- Blom, Philipp, 1970- author.
- Published
- New York : Basic Books, [2015]
- Locale
- Europe
United States
- Contents
-
Postwar: 1918 : Shell shock
1919 : A poet's coup
1920 : Moonshine nation
1921 : The end of hope
1922 : Renaissance in Harlem
1923 : Beyond the Milky Way
1924 : Men behaving badly
1925 : Monkey business
1926 : Metropolis
1927 : A palace in flames
1928 : Boop-boop-a-doop!
Prewar: 1929 : The magnetic city
1930 : Lili and the Blue Angel
1931 : The anatomy of love in Italy
1932 : Holodomor
1933 : Pogrom of the intellect
1934 : Thank you, Jeeves
1935 : Route 66
1936 : Beautiful bodies
1937 : War within a war
1938 : Epilogue: Abide by me.
- Notes
-
Includes bibliographical references (pages 415-442) and index.
Postwar: 1918 : Shell shock -- 1919 : A poet's coup -- 1920 : Moonshine nation -- 1921 : The end of hope -- 1922 : Renaissance in Harlem -- 1923 : Beyond the Milky Way -- 1924 : Men behaving badly -- 1925 : Monkey business -- 1926 : Metropolis -- 1927 : A palace in flames -- 1928 : Boop-boop-a-doop! -- Prewar: 1929 : The magnetic city -- 1930 : Lili and the Blue Angel -- 1931 : The anatomy of love in Italy -- 1932 : Holodomor -- 1933 : Pogrom of the intellect -- 1934 : Thank you, Jeeves -- 1935 : Route 66 -- 1936 : Beautiful bodies -- 1937 : War within a war -- 1938 : Epilogue: Abide by me.
