Vienna: How the City of Ideas Created the Modern World

by Richard Cockett

How can one European capital be responsible for most of the West's intellectual and cultural achievements in the twentieth century?

Viennese ideas saturate the modern world. From California architecture to Hollywood Westerns, modern advertising to shopping malls, orgasms to gender confirmation surgery, nuclear fission to fitted kitchens--every aspect of our history, science, and culture is in some way shaped by Vienna.

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300266537
• ISBN13: 9780300266535
• Release Date: November 2023
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 464 Pages
• Weight: 1.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 6.0" x 9.3"