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RITES OF SPRING

Modris Eksteins

The Great War and the Birth of the Modern Age

The First World War has retained a special fascination for Canadian writers and scholars, and in Rites of Spring, University of Toronto historian Modris Eksteins contributed one of the most masterful studies of the culture of the war and its era. Eksteins does his time in the trenches, but he doesn't stay mired there, ranging through events from the Ballets Russes debut of The Rite of Spring to Lindbergh's solo Atlantic flight and the rise of Hitler to trace the cultural origins and aftermath of the war that failed to end all wars.

Modris Eksteins is an award-winning Canadian historian who has written numerous books, including Walking Since Daybreak, Solar Dance, and Limits of Reason. He has won many awards, including the Ferguson Prize and the Trillium Book Award. Modris is a professor emeritus of history at the University of Toronto Scarborough.

TANZ ueBER GRaeBEN
Deutsch von Bernhard Schmid
HC: Rowohlt, 04/1990. RR 02/2000.

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Book Published 1989-02-01 by Houghton Mifflin

Comments

A brilliantly conceived and wonderfully written book of cultural and intellectual history... ...this will likely become required reading for anyone who seeks to understand the central importance of the Great War to the decades that followed.

In a trailblazing, iconoclastic work of cultural history, Eksteins links the modern avant-garde's penchant for primitivism, abstraction and myth-making to the protofascist ideology and militarism unleashed by WW I. (...) This provocative and disturbing reappraisal of modernism rings with authority.