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Paris between the wars / Carol Mann.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Vendome Press, 1996.Edition: 1st North American edDescription: 208 p. : ill. ; 31 cmISBN:
  • 0865659818
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 306.47094436
LOC classification:
  • 318 DC 715 M34p 1996
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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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Item type Current library Home library Collection Shelving location Call number Vol info Copy number Status Barcode
Libro Libro Biblioteca Juan Bosch Biblioteca Juan Bosch Recursos Regionales Recursos Regionales (2do. Piso) 318 DC 715 M34p 1996 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 1 Available 00000110292

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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