Fin de sie?cle and its legacy / edited by Mikula?s? Teich and Roy Porter

Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-dulled dust wrapper. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; xii, 345 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents; A legacy of fin-de-sie?cle capitalism : the giant company / Alice Teichova -- Fin de sie?cle : industrial transformation / Alfred D. Chandler, Jr. -- The electrical century : the beginnings of electricity supply in Austria / Roman Sandgruber (translated from German by Richard Hockaday) -- Heralds of modernity : cars and planes from invention to necessity / Richard Overy -- Nationalism, anti-semitism, socialism and political Catholicism as expressions of mass politics in the twentieth century / Enzo Collotti (translated from Italian by Mario di Gregorio) -- Mass media and culture in fin-de-sie?cle Europe / Patrick Brantlinger -- Forward race and the laughter of pygmies : on Olympic sport / Henning Eichberg (translated from German by Maureen Cottrell) -- Photography, cinematography and the theatre: a history of a relationship / Barbara Lesa?k (translated from German by Richard Hockaday) -- Fin-de-sie?cle England / Alison Hennegan -- Heroes, meadows and machinery: fin-de-sie?cle music / Fritz Weber -- The transformation of physics / Erwin N. Hiebert -- A feeling for the 'whole' : the holistic reaction in neurology from the fin de sie?le to the interwar years / Anne Harrington -- Biology and beauty: science ans aesthetics in fin-de-sie?cle Germany / Kurt Bayertz (translated from German by Peter Germain) -- The unmastered past of human genetics / Mikula?s? Teich. Photography, cinematography and the theatre : a history of a relationship / Barbara Lesa?k (translated from German by Richard Hockaday) -- Fin-de-sie?cle painting / Jennifer Birkett -- Personalities and principles : aspects of literature and life in fin-de-sie?cle England / Alison Hennegan -- Heroes, meadows and machinery : fin-de-sie?cle music / Fritz Weber -- The transformation of physics / Erwin N. Hiebert -- A feeling for the 'whole' : the holistic reaction in neurology from the fin de sie?cle to the interwar years / Anne Harrington -- Biology and beauty : science and aesthetics in fin-de-sie?cle Germany / Kurt Bayertz (translated from German by Peter Germain) -- The unmastered past of human genetics / Mikula?s? Teich. Subjects; 1800-1999. 19th-20th centuries. History, Modern 19th century. History, Modern 20th century. History. History, Modern. Civilization, Modern 19th century. Civilization, Modern 20th century. Science History 19th century. European history. 1 Kg.…