Nineteenth-century Europe : a cultural history /
A concise look at European culture between the Great Revolution in France and the First World War. The book views the culture of the 19th century in broad terms, integrating everyday ways of life into the story as mental, material and social practices.
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Cambridge, UK ; Malden, MA :
Polity,
2008.
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Table of Contents:
- Industrialization : economy and culture
- The Faustian man : a society in motion
- From the cult of genius to worship of art
- On the cultural history of nationalism
- A century of family and home : daily routines and country excursions
- Baudelaire in the department store : urban living and consumption
- The breakthrough of mechanical reproduction
- Colonial culture and European identity
- Fin de Siècle : the end of a century
- Conclusion : 'things to come'.