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Philipp Blom

Born

in Hamburg, Germany

January 01, 1970

Website

http://www.philipp-blom.eu/

Genre

Literature & Fiction, History

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Philipp Blom is a German novelist who currently lives and works in Vienna, Austria. He is best known for his novel, The Simmons Papers (1995). His 2007 novel, Luxor has not yet been translated into English. He is a professional historian who studied at Vienna and Oxford with a focus on eighteenth-century intellectual history. His academic works include: To Have and to Hold: An Intimate History of Collectors and Collecting; Encyclopédie, and The Vertigo Years: Change and Culture in the West, 1900-1914. He is also the author of The Wines of Austria.

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	The Vertigo Years: Europe 1900-1914 4.02 avg rating — 1,437 ratings — published 2008 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Nature's Mutiny: How the Little Ice Age of the Long Seventeenth Century Transformed the West and Shaped the Present 3.57 avg rating — 1,211 ratings — published 2017 — 29 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Wicked Company: The Forgotten Radicalism of the European Enlightenment 4.11 avg rating — 739 ratings — published 2010 — 27 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Fracture: Life and Culture in the West, 1918-1938 4.26 avg rating — 601 ratings — published 2014 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Wat op het spel staat by Philipp Blom, W. Hansen (Translator) 3.67 avg rating — 422 ratings — published 2017 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Het grote wereldtoneel by Philipp Blom, W. Hansen (Translator) 3.65 avg rating — 265 ratings — published 2020 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	To Have And To Hold: An Intimate History Of Collectors and Collecting 3.77 avg rating — 212 ratings — published 2002 — 16 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Enlightening the World: Encyclopedia, The Book That Changed the Course of History 4.13 avg rating — 136 ratings — published 2004 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	De onderwerping: een geschiedenis van de verhouding van de mens tot de natuur by Philipp Blom, Wil Hansen (Translator) 3.82 avg rating — 146 ratings — published 2022 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Dieven van het licht by Philipp Blom, Kris Lauwerys (translator), Isabelle Schoepen (translator) 3.49 avg rating — 147 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“No dictatorship has ever approved of jazz.”
― Philipp Blom, Fracture: Life and Culture in the West, 1918-1938

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“The irony at the base of this situation is that the gospel of the free market is just as ideological as those of communism and fascism.”
― Philipp Blom, Fracture: Life and Culture in the West, 1918-1938

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“Close dancing may be the best inoculation against ideology.”
― Philipp Blom, Fracture: Life and Culture in the West, 1918-1938

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One Summer: America, 1927 by Bill Bryson

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Adolf Hitler: My Part in His Downfall by Spike Milligan

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The Monuments Men: Allied Heroes, Nazi Thieves, and the Greatest Treasure Hunt in History by Robert M. Edsel

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Abroad: British Literary Traveling Between the Wars by Paul Fussell

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Fromms: How Julius Fromm's Condom Empire Fell to the Nazis by Götz Aly

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The Vertigo Years: Europe 1900-1914 by Philipp Blom

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A Woman in Berlin: Eight Weeks in the Conquered City: A Diary by Anonymous

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Surprised by Joy by C.S. Lewis

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Max Perkins: Editor of Genius by A. Scott Berg

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