Paris between the wars /
Carol Mann.
- 1st North American ed.
- New York : Vendome Press, 1996.
- 208 p. : ill. ; 31 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 205) and index.
The rise of the western world -- The Habsburg bid for mastery, 1519-1659 -- Finance, geography, and the winning of wars, 1660-1815 -- Industrialization and the shifting global balances, 1815-1885 -- The coming of a bipolar world and the crisis of the "middle powers" : part one, 1885-1918 -- The coming of a bipolar world and the crisis of the "middle powers" : part two, 1919-1942 -- Stability and change in a bipolar world, 1943-1980 -- To the twenty-first century.
The scope and character of artistic life in Paris during the Roaring Twenties and the Depression Thirties are the subject of the present book, brilliantly treated in a collection of extraordinary photographs and a richly informative text by Carol Mann, novelist, journalist, and scholar of twentieth-century art. The end of what Europeans call the Great War (1914-1918) marked the beginning of tremendous creativity in
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