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Significant Books and Music of the Century, Year by Year
1900 was the year that the Boxer Rebellion broke out in China; Russia annexed Manchuria; the International Ladies' Garment Workers Union was founded; and Eastman Kodak introduced the $1 Box Brownie.


Significant Book of 1900:
Sigmund Freud's The Interpretation of Dreams

BOOK This pioneering work by Austrian psychiatrist Sigmund Freud introduced the Oedipus complex and the concept of using dreams as a means to explore the unconscious. This was a giant step in the history of psychology.

  Significant Music of 1900:
 Giacomo Puccini's Tosca

BOOK Italian composer Giacomo Puccini's TOSCA premiered in Rome. Building on the verismo, or realistic, style of Pietro Mascagni and Ruggiero Leoncavallo, Puccini's opera features an offstage torture scene, a firing squad, and a suicide.




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