The Culture of the Europeans - Tapa blanda

'An absorbing, illuminating and enjoyable book!anyone with an interest in the development of culture!will find it interesting, informative and surprisingly entertaining. It is also packed with good sense.' Daily Telegraph 'Never less than penetrating in his comments!this!book shows how British historians such as Sassoon!now occupy the commanding heights of comparative European history and analysis.' Financial Times 'Donald Sassoon has to be congratulated for his immense ambition!it is full of dense detail and he has mastered a considerable body of evidence.' The Spectator '"The Culture of the Europeans" is very good indeed!a collection of self-contained essays which can be dipped into for pleasure and information alike!Donald Sassoon's style is conversational, erudite, readable and well-crafted to the very last word.' Literary Review

A magisterial narrative account of the creation and consumption of all forms of 'culture' across the European continent over the last 200 years. In his impressively wide-ranging, authoritative and compelling survey, Donald Sassoon is the first historian to attempt an overall synthesis of Europe's variegated culture and its consumption -- from what people read in books, newspapers and magazines to what they listened to on the radio, in the music hall and at the opera, and what they observed on stage and screen or admired in oils. For each type of consumption, Sassoon investigates the broader contexts and implications in which culture developed and spread during different historical periods. How many people could read at various points in time? Who could afford what and what made a bestseller -- in 1800, 1850, 1900, 1950 and 2000? How many books were translated and how international is culture? Is there even such a thing as European culture? In examining and analysing the connections among culture, the market place and politics, Sassoon raises engaging and controversial questions about the nature of culture, its insulation and its more recent Americanisation, which are guaranteed to inspire widespread spirited debate.