Philipp Blom - Böcker

Vintrarna blev långa och kalla, somrarna korta och svala: under 1600-talet förändrades Europas klimat dramatiskt. Mat blev en bristvara, ekonomin stagnerade och samhället föll ner i en djup kris. Den lilla istiden , som varande ungefär mellan år 1...

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Subjugate the Earth¿traces the biography of a strange idea: the idea that human beings can subdue nature and rule over it.¿Born in Mesopotamia at the dawn of civilization, the idea of subjugating the Earth was included in the Bible, reached Europe...

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Europe, 1900-1914: a world adrift, a pulsating era of creativity and contradictions. The major topics of the day: terrorism, globalization, immigration, consumerism, the collapse of moral values, and the rivalry of superpowers. The twentieth centu...

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A panorama of Europe, 1900-1914, describing the cultural, economic and political life before the First World War.Europe, early in the twentieth century: a world adrift, a pulsating era of creativity and contradictions. But did this era vanish in t...

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Dazzling recreation of the world of radical free-thinkers in 18th-century FranceFrom the 1750s to the 1770s, the Paris salon of Baron d'Holbach was an epicenter of debate, intellectual daring and revolutionary ideas, uniting around one table vivid...

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Opens a door onto the world of pre-revolutionary Russia in original photographs taken during the last decades of Romanov rule. This title includes many remarkable colour images created using an early three-colourplate technique; these bring the re...

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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: fe...

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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 wo...

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Subjugate the Earth traces the biography of a strange idea: the idea that human beings can subdue nature and rule over it. Born in Mesopotamia at the dawn of civilization, the idea of subjugating the Earth was included in the Bible, reached Europe...

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Blom's hypothesis is forceful, and has the potential to be both frightening and, if you hold it up to the light at just the right angle, a little optimistic. The idea can be put like this: climate change changes everything' John Lanchester, New Yo...

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Europe where the sun dares scarce appear For freezing meteors and congealed cold.' - Christopher Marlowe In this innovative and compelling work of environmental history, Philipp Blom chronicles the great climate crisis of the 1600s, a crisis that ...

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Europe where the sun dares scarce appear For freezing meteors and congealed cold.' - Christopher Marlowe In this innovative and compelling work of environmental history, Philipp Blom chronicles the great climate crisis of the 1600s, a crisis that ...

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This is a fascinating and superbly illustrated look at how the First World War influenced an entire generation of visual artists. Much of how WWI is understood today is rooted in the artistic depictions of the brutal violence and extensive destruc...

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Dazzling recreation of the world of radical free-thinkers in 18th-century France From the 1750s to the 1770s, the Paris salon of Baron d'Holbach was an epicenter of debate, intellectual daring and revolutionary ideas, uniting around one table vivi...

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Mit den Denkern der Aufklarung die Krise der Gegenwart verstehen Aus der Reihe "e;Unruhe bewahren"e; in Kooperation mit der Akademie Graz und DIE PRESSEWir leben mitten in einer Krise der Aufklrung: Rationalitt, Universalismus, Menschenrec...

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