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Stranger Than We Can Imagine

Making Sense of the Twentieth Century

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Stranger Than We Can Imagine

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The 20th century should make sense. It's the period of history that we know the most about, an epic geopolitical narrative that runs through World War One, the Great Depression, World War Two, the American century and the fall of the Berlin Wall.

But somehow that story doesn't quite lead into the world we find ourselves in now, this bewildering 21st century, adrift in a network of constant surveillance, unsustainable competition, tsunamis of trivia and extraordinary opportunity.

Time, then, for a new perspective. With John Higgs as our guide, we step off the main path and wander through some of the more curious backwaters of the 20th century, exploring familiar and unfamiliar territory alike, finding fresh insight on our journey to the present day. We travel in the company of some of the most radical artists, scientists, geniuses and crazies of their age.

They show us that great innovations such as relativity, cubism, quantum mechanics, postmodernism and chaos maths are not the incomprehensible, abstract horrors that we assume them to be but signposts that bring us to the world we live in now.

John Higgs brings us an alternative history of the strangest of centuries. He shows us how the elegant, clockwork universe of the Victorians became increasingly woozy and uncertain; and how we discovered that our world is not just stranger than we imagine but, in the words of Sir Arthur Eddington, "stranger than we can imagine".

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"It was formerly held that a comprehensive history of the last century would never be written, by virtue of the fact that we knew too much about that frenetic and eventful period. Now, with the era's ink barely dry, John Higgs demolishes this assumption with a breathtakingly lucid and coherent map of the tectonic shifts which drastically reshaped the human psyche, and the human world, within a hundred thrilling, terrifying years.... An illuminating work of massive insight, in Stranger Than We Can Imagine John Higgs informs us of exactly where we've been and, by extension, where we are. I cannot recommend this magnificent work too highly." (Alan Moore, author of V For Vendetta, Watchmen and Lost Girls)
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I loved this book from start to finish. It's educational and thought provoking. By providing a comprehensive account of significant changes in politics, economics, science, power, philosophy, music and more during the twentieth century, the reader is provided with new perspectives and a fascinating insight into our own place on the planet and in the timeline of recent human history during a period of strange and significant change. Do yourself a favour - read (or listen) to this book!

Not to be missed

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The interaction among science, culture and the arts. I have read much of his source material but it was very useful to have it all brought together in one book with all the parallels and interactions pointed out.

Fascinating, clear and amusing

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wow. How one person has acquired the knowledge and perspective to put this together is a mystery to me. definitely recommend.

Comprehensive and coherent stuff

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hard to get into initially, but once I did it was both funny and interesting at the same time.

im still not sure about oniflos, but I'll try to use it to impress my wife.

loved it...

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John Higgs is not the type of author who dwells too long on one particular subject. And this history of the twentieth century is not a typical Kings, Queens and Prime Ministers type recital of events. Instead, our brave and intrepid author attempts a Grand Unified approach that encompasses, amongst other things, politics, the arts, science, sociology and fashion and, rather than tackling these in sequence, he seeks to identify interactions between them. Ambitious as this sounds, and it could well have ended up as a jumbled mess, this actually works. The story of the riots caused Stravinsky's Rite of Spring has often been told but Higgs goes one step further to explain the context of this premiere against the world events that formed the backdrop. What was thought to be known and constant, such as Newtonian physics, was challenged and debunked first by Einstein who himself was dumbfounded by concepts introduced by quantum physics that even today scientists debate and discuss. We hear of Henry Ford, Alisteir Crowley, the strange story of Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven and the culteral impact of Nintendo's Super Mario. Accepted that this is populist and not in any way academic but the sheer breadth and depth of the subject matter is astounding and anyone reading this will find themselves quoting some of the stories for weeks afterwards. Recommended.

Entertaining grand unified history of C20th

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