Philipp Blom (Author of The Vertigo Years)

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Philipp Blom

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in Hamburg, Germany

January 01, 1970

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Philipp Blom is a German novelist who currently lives and works in Vienna, Austria. He is best known for his novel, The Simmons Papers (1995). His 2007 novel, Luxor has not yet been translated into English. He is a professional historian who studied at Vienna and Oxford with a focus on eighteenth-century intellectual history. His academic works include: To Have and to Hold: An Intimate History of Collectors and Collecting; 贰苍肠测肠濒辞辫茅诲颈别, and The Vertigo Years: Change and Culture in the West, 1900-1914. He is also the author of The Wines of Austria.

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	The Vertigo Years: Europe 1900-1914 4.02 avg rating — 1,406 ratings — published 2008 — 33 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Nature's Mutiny: How the Little Ice Age of the Long Seventeenth Century Transformed the West and Shaped the Present 3.58 avg rating — 1,168 ratings — published 2017 — 29 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Wicked Company: The Forgotten Radicalism of the European Enlightenment 4.11 avg rating — 732 ratings — published 2010 — 27 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Fracture: Life and Culture in the West, 1918-1938 4.25 avg rating — 585 ratings — published 2014 — 29 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Wat op het spel staat by Philipp Blom, W. Hansen (Translator) 3.67 avg rating — 423 ratings — published 2017 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Het grote wereldtoneel by Philipp Blom, W. Hansen (Translator) 3.66 avg rating — 260 ratings — published 2020 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	To Have And To Hold: An Intimate History Of Collectors and Collecting 3.78 avg rating — 211 ratings — published 2002 — 17 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Enlightening the World: Encyclopedia, The Book That Changed the Course of History 4.14 avg rating — 133 ratings — published 2004 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	De onderwerping: een geschiedenis van de verhouding van de mens tot de natuur by Philipp Blom, Wil Hansen (Translator) 3.85 avg rating — 134 ratings — published 2022 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Dieven van het licht by Philipp Blom, Kris Lauwerys (translator), Isabelle Schoepen (translator) 3.52 avg rating — 131 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“No dictatorship has ever approved of jazz.”
― Philipp Blom, Fracture: Life and Culture in the West, 1918-1938

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“The irony at the base of this situation is that the gospel of the free market is just as ideological as those of communism and fascism.”
― Philipp Blom, Fracture: Life and Culture in the West, 1918-1938

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“Close dancing may be the best inoculation against ideology.”
― Philipp Blom, Fracture: Life and Culture in the West, 1918-1938

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