The Europeans: Three Lives and the Making of a Cosmopolitan Culture

From the “master of historical narrative” (Financial Times), a dazzling, richly detailed, panoramic work-the first to document the genesis of a continent-wide European culture

The nineteenth century in Europe was the first age of cultural globalization-an epoch when mass communications and high-speed rail travel brought Europe together, overcoming national barriers and creating a truly pan-European canon of artistic, musical, and literary works. By 1900, people across the continent were read...