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An essential work for anyone who wishes to understand the social history of the nineteenth century,
Schnitzler's Century is the culmination of Peter Gay's thirty-five years of scholarship on bourgeois culture and society. Using Arthur Schnitzler, the sexually emboldened Viennese playwright, as his master of ceremonies, Gay offers a brilliant reexamination of the hundred-year period that began with the defeat of Napoleon and concluded with the conflagration of 1914. This is a defining work by one of America's greatest historians.
About the author
Peter Gay, 1923 in Berlin geboren, emigrierte 1939, als Jude von Verfolgung bedroht, in die Vereinigten Staaten. Er war Professor für Geschichte an der Yale University in New Haven und ist derzeit Direktor des Center for Scholars and Writers an der New York Public Library. Er ist Ehrenmitglied der Amerikanischen Psychoanalytischen Gesellschaft und gilt als einer der besten Kenner der deutsch-jüdischen Kultur. 1999 erhielt er den Geschwister-Scholl-Preis.
Summary
"This is cultural history of the first order, and it is liberal and humane history at its very best."-David Cannadine
