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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... Russian barbarism , wrote that Russia was ' a strange land ... which gives birth to slaves who believe whatever they ... Russian village , the mir , as a bulwark against excessive industrialisation and its inevitable evils ...
... Russian barbarism , wrote that Russia was ' a strange land ... which gives birth to slaves who believe whatever they ... Russian village , the mir , as a bulwark against excessive industrialisation and its inevitable evils ...
Page 475
... Russian intelligentsia was profoundly aware of what they were : outsiders looking in on the unparalleled cultural development that was taking place in the West . The Russian intelligentsia was intimately familiar with ' the Other ...
... Russian intelligentsia was profoundly aware of what they were : outsiders looking in on the unparalleled cultural development that was taking place in the West . The Russian intelligentsia was intimately familiar with ' the Other ...
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... Russian educated classes , on the other hand , though often using French , spoke Russian , the language of the people . The ill - defined Western model which had been imposed upon them since the days of Peter the Great remained just ...
... Russian educated classes , on the other hand , though often using French , spoke Russian , the language of the people . The ill - defined Western model which had been imposed upon them since the days of Peter the Great remained just ...
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The PreConditions Sources of Cultural Expansion | 3 |
Triumphant Languages | 21 |
Publishing | 41 |
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