A New Grand Tour: How Europe's Great Cities Made Our World

by Godfrey Hodgson (Author)

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  Hardcover
  1995

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  For more than 200 years, British travellers combed Europe for the relics of classical antiqyity and monuments of the baroque. That was the Grand Tour. With this book, Godfrey Hodgson proposes a New Grand Tour into the beginings of our own world: the Europe of the modernists and the modern. The tour takes the reader through seven cities: Rome, Paris and London, Berlin and Vienna, Prague and St Petersburg. In each, Hodgson focuses on the men and women who created the modern mind and relates them to the world they lived in.

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  Paperback
  1995

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  This book includes ten sketches of European cities, each of which has contributed something to the ferment, the still dangerous brew of European civilization. Each will have something, even if only a distinct and rich way of life of its own, to contribute in the future. Each essay reflects what moves and intrigues the author about the history, literature, politics, past and future of the city and the flavour of its way of life. Together they are intended to paint an original portrait of the old/new Europe.