THE CULTURE OF THE EUROPEANS: FROM 1800 TO THE PRESENT
Book ID/图书代码： 06040005B02686
English Summary/英文概要： A magisterial narrative account of the creation and consumption of all forms of ’culture’ across the European continent over the last two hundred years. This compelling, wide-ranging and hugely ambitious book offers, for the first time ever, an integrated history of the culture produced and consumed by Europeans since 1800, and follows its transformation from an elite activity to a mass market -- from lending libraries to the internet, from the first public concerts to music downloads. In itself a cultural tour de force, the book covers high and low culture, readers and writers, audiences and prima donnas, Rossini and hip hop, Verdi and the Beatles, Zola and Tintin, Walter Scott and Jules Verne, the serialised novel of the 19th-century as well as ’Dallas’ and ’Coronation Street’. Included in its vast scope are fairytales, bestsellers, crime and sci-fi, non-fiction, magazines, newspapers, comic strips, plays, opera, musicals, pop music, sound recording, films, documentaries, radio and television. A continent-wide survey, this majestic work includes discussions of rock music under communism, Polish and Danish bestsellers, French melodramas and German cabarets, fascist and Soviet cinema. It examines the ways culture travels -- how it is produced, transformed, adapted, absorbed, sold and consumed; how it is shaped by audiences and politics, and controlled by laws and conventional morality; why some countries excel in particular genres. It examines the anxiety and attraction felt by Europeans towards American culture, and asks to what extent European culture has become Americanised. Stylishly written, devoid of jargon, this is global non-fiction narrative at its best.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 一部讲述过去二百年里整个欧洲大陆各种文化形式的诞生和消费的权威作品。
真的有欧洲文化这样的东西吗？文化与市场，文化与文化产业，政治与文化之间到底有没有关联？欧洲文化到底有多么的美式化？
Awards/获奖情况：’Donald Sassoon has to be congratulated for his immense ambition...full of dense detail...a considerable body of evidence.’ ---The Spectator
’A collection of self-contained essays which can be dipped into for pleasure and information alike...’---Literary Review
’remarkable...is surely the most fact-heavy history of the last two centuries ever written.’---Independent on Sunday
’...absorbingly written and carefully documented...the overall level of accuracy is impressively high...’ ---History Today
’There is much in Sassoon’s book that it useful and interesting...an invaluable reference guide.’--- The Independent
’unique and encyclopedic...a monument to streetwise and cosmopolitan scholarship.’---The Guardian
’the most innovative of 2006’s heavy hitters.’ ---Stephen Howe, The Independent
’Sassoon writes with marvellous fluency throughout...he has a keen eye for the pointed comparison.’---THES
His lively, elegant style is worthy of a far lighter study, making this massive survey an unexpectedly pleasurable read.’---The Scotsman
About the Author/作者介绍： Donald Sasson出生于开罗，在巴黎、米兰、伦敦和美国都求过学，现在是伦敦大学玛莉皇后学院的欧洲比较史教授。
Donald Sassoon was born in Cairo and was educated in Paris, Milan, London and the USA. He is the author of a number of books on Italian history and of ’One Hundred Years of Socialism’ (winner of the Deutscher Prize 1996), ’Mona Lisa’ and ’The Culture of the Europeans’. His books have been translated into fourteen languages. He is currently Professor of Comparative European History at Queen Mary, University of London.
Format:HARDCOVER
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