The Culture of the Europeans: From 1800 to the PresentHarperPress, 2006 - 1617 pages "This wide-ranging and hugely ambitious book offers, for the first time ever, an integrated history of the culture produced and consumed by Europeans since 1800, and follows its transformation from an elite activity to a mass market - from lending libraries to the internet, from the first public concerts to music downloads."--BOOK JACKET. |
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Page 29
... French , and another six could not sustain a normal conversation in it . Unless French became universal , public administration would continue to be the preserve of the ' respectable classes ' . Strictly speaking , French had been ...
... French , and another six could not sustain a normal conversation in it . Unless French became universal , public administration would continue to be the preserve of the ' respectable classes ' . Strictly speaking , French had been ...
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... French , 102 from English , thirteen from Italian , and eleven from Dutch . Until the late eighteenth century most Dutch literary journals were written in French.50 51 - At the court of Frederick II of Prussia - who despised German ...
... French , 102 from English , thirteen from Italian , and eleven from Dutch . Until the late eighteenth century most Dutch literary journals were written in French.50 51 - At the court of Frederick II of Prussia - who despised German ...
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... French film industry plenty of opportunities for experimentation and for feats of techni- cal prowess equal or even superior to those in Hollywood . Even in the 1920s , when the French cinema was barely able to defend itself , producing ...
... French film industry plenty of opportunities for experimentation and for feats of techni- cal prowess equal or even superior to those in Hollywood . Even in the 1920s , when the French cinema was barely able to defend itself , producing ...
Contents
The PreConditions Sources of Cultural Expansion | 3 |
Triumphant Languages | 21 |
Publishing | 41 |
Copyright | |
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