Weimar: A Cultural History

by Walter Laqueur

Book Overview

The term "Weimar culture," while generally accepted, is in some respects unsatisfactory, if only because political and cultural history seldom coincides in time. Expressionism was not born with the defeat of the Imperial German army, nor is there any obvious connection between abstract painting and atonal music and the escape of the Kaiser, nor were the great scientific discoveries triggered off by the proclamation of the Republic in 1919. As the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138540404
• ISBN13: 9781138540408
• Release Date: November 2017
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 356 Pages
• Weight: 1.42 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"