How Basel changed the world

by Matthias Buschle, Daniel Hagmann

Overview

This book is all about events, discoveries and ideas which may have seemed small and insignificant at the time but later changed the world. DDT and LSD, Frick & Frack, the Basel Mission and the Zionist World Congress, Tadeus Reichstein and Friedrich Nietzsche, the first printed edition of the Koran and much else provide the stuff of which exciting stories are made in Basel, the hub of the universe.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783856166755
Publisher:	Christoph Merian Verlag
Publication date:	03/28/2015
Sold by:	Bookwire
Format:	NOOK Book
Pages:	176
File size:	784 KB

About the Author

Matthias Buschle (*1970) is an art historian, journalist and exhibition curator. Daniel Hagmann (*1966) has a PhD in history and has been writing for many years on the cultural history of the Basel region.