The Culture of the Europeans: From 1800 to the Present

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HarperPress, 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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The PreConditions Sources of Cultural Expansion
3
Triumphant Languages
21
Publishing
41
Copyright

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About the author (2006)

Donald Sassoon was born in Cairo and was educated in Paris, Milan, London and the USA. He is the author of a number of books on Italian history and of 'One Hundred Years of Socialism' (winner of the Deutscher Prize 1996), 'Mona Lisa' and 'The Culture of the Europeans'. His books have been translated into fourteen languages. He is currently Professor of Comparative European History at Queen Mary, University of London.

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