My Lists
Featured Lists
REVIEWS
Library Journal
Reviewed on June 15, 2013 | Social Sciences
Sayer's (cultural history, Lancaster Univ.) inspirations for this anticipated sequel to his Coasts of Bohemia: A Czech History are Walter Benjamin's essays in his Arcades Project citing Paris as the capital of the 19th century. Sayer argues that 20th-century Prague can lay claim to witnessing the birth of the modern and postmodern world. Not only was Prague host or home to such pioneers of surrealism as André Breton...Log In or Sign Up to Read More