Edward Ross Dickinson: 3 books
Dancing in the Blood
Modern Dance and European Culture on the Eve of the First World War
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2017
This is a remarkable account of the revolutionary impact of modern dance on European cultural life in the early twentieth century. Edward Ross Dickinson uncovers modern dance's place in the emerging 'mass' culture of the modern metropolis, sufficiently ubiquitous and high-profile to spark media storms,...
The World in the Long Twentieth Century
An Interpretive History
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2018
What can be called the long twentieth century represents the most miraculous and creative era in human history. It was also the most destructive. Over the past 150 years, modern societies across the globe have passed through an extraordinary and completely unprecedented transformation rooted in the...
by Edward Ross Dickinson
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2014
This is a study of the intense, complex, and escalating debate over sexuality and sexual morality that roiled politics in Germany between 1880 and 1914. That debate was grounded in the rapid evolution and growing complexity of German society - the multiplication of cultural groupings, professional...