Fin-de-siècle Vienna: Politics and Culture
- ISBN-10
- 0394505964
- ISBN-13
- 9780394505961
- Category
- History / Europe / Austria & Hungary
- Pages
- 378
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1980
- Publisher
- Knopf
- Author
- Carl E. Schorske
Description
Seven interlinked essays on Habsburg Vienna in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries focus on the intersection of politics and culture and the achievements of the city's political geniuses
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