The Alienation Effect - How Central European Émigrés Transformed the British Twentieth Century
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| Verlag | Penguin Books UK |
| Auflage | 2025 |
| Seiten | 608 |
| Format | 16,5 x 24,2 x 3,7 cm |
| Gewicht | 1016 g |
| Artikeltyp | Englisches Buch |
| EAN | 9780241378205 |
| Bestell-Nr | 24137820EM |
Britain. Made in Europe.
A Guardian Best History and Politics Book of the Year 2025
In the 1930s, tens of thousands of central Europeans sought sanctuary from fascism in Britain. While the rainy, seemingly quaint island they discovered on arrival was a far cry from the dynamism of Weimar Berlin or Red Vienna, it was safe, and it became home. Yet the émigrés had not arrived alone: they brought with them new and radical ideas, and as they began to rebuild their lives and livelihoods, they transformed the face of Britain forever.
Drawing on an immense cast of artists and intellectuals, including celebrated figures like Erno Goldfinger, forgotten luminaries like Ruth Glass, and a host of larger-than-life visionaries and charlatans, the historian Owen Hatherley argues that in the resulting clash between European modernism and British moderation, our imaginations were fundamentally realigned and remade for the better. In casting what Bertolt Brecht called, in a new German word, a Verfremdungseffekt, an 'alienation effect', on Britain, the aliens made us all a little bit alien too.
Provocative, entertaining and meticulously researched, The Alienation Effect opens our eyes to the influence of the émigrés all around us - many of our most quintessentially British icons are the product of this culture clash - and entreats us to remember and renew our proud national tradition of asylum.
Rezension:
Owen Hatherley turns to a gentler kind of insurgency in The Alienation Effect - a group biography of the architects, designers and directors from Mitteleuropa who washed up on Britain's shores in the middle of the last century. We already know the assimilated conservatives - Friedrich Hayek and Karl Popper - but Hatherley gives us the forgotten radicals who put concrete into our skyline and shook us out of our complacency Pratinav Anil Guardian, Best History and Politics Books 2025
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- Geschichte
- Anthropogeografie
- Architektur / Geschichte, Regionen
- Englische Bücher / Geschichte, Kulturgeschichte, Zeitgeschichte
- Europa / Mitteleuropa
- Flüchtling
- Geistesgeschichte
- Geografie / Anthropogeografie
- Großbritannien / Geschichte, Politik, Gesellschaft, Recht
- Humangeografie
- Kunstgeschichte
- Migration (soziologisch)
- Mitteleuropa
- Soziologie
- Soziologie / Bevölkerung, Siedlung, Stadt
- Stadt
- Vertriebener / Flüchtling
- Wanderung (soziologisch)
- Zentraleuropa
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