Philipp Blom, Author . Overlook $27.95 (345p) ISBN 978-1-58567-377-3
The mania of collecting, a pastime usually reserved for the most wealthy of individuals, has a long history, says German-born journalist Blom. For many collectors, "money is no object, and objects are everything." Blom begins his formal,...
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Philipp Blom, Author Palgrave MacMillan $40 (372p) ISBN 978-1-4039-6895-1
In the dark corners of Paris's bohemian cafes, salons and theaters, some of the greatest European thinkers of the 18th century congregated, and it was here that the Encyclopedie was born. The most enormous publishing effort of the day, the...
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Philipp Blom, Basic, $29.95 (352p) ISBN 978-0-465-01453-8
Historian Blom (The Vertigo Years) visits the salons of 18th-century Europe and compares this "radical" Enlightenment with the more bourgeoisie, "soft Enlightenment" of Votaire, Kant, and other philosophers. Though Baron d'Holbach's uncompromising...
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Philipp Blom, Author . Basic $29.95 (466p) ISBN 978-0-465-01116-2
Virginia Woolf famously declared that “human character changed” in the year 1910; this dizzying survey of European history and culture before WWI elaborates. Historian Blom (Enlightening the World
) examines every innovation of the...
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Philipp Blom. Basic, $32 (512p) ISBN 978-0-465-02249-6
In the beginning of this thoughtful portrait of the interwar years, Blom (A Wicked Company) asks the central question that arose for so many everyday people: after the devastation of WWI, “What values were there left to live for?” Blom
is thorough...
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Phillip Blom. Liveright, $27.95 (256p) ISBN 978-1-63149-404-8
An epic bout of global cooling sparked the rise of capitalism and rationality, according to this weakly argued environmental history. Journalist Blom (Fracture) probes Europe’s response to a prolonged cooling period from 1570 to 1690, an era of...
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