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Streetlife

The Untold History of Europe's Twentieth Century

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Streetlife

By: Leif Jerram
Narrated by: Carl Prekopp
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The 20th century in Europe was an urban century: it was shaped by life in, and the view from, the street. Women were not liberated in legislatures, but liberated themselves in factories, homes, nightclubs, and shops. Lenin, Hitler, and Mussolini made themselves powerful by making cities ungovernable, with riots rampaging through streets and bars occupied one-by-one.

New forms of privacy and isolation were not simply a by-product of prosperity; rather, they came about because people planned new ways of living: new forms of housing in suburbs and estates across the continent. Our proudest cultural achievements lie not in our galleries or state theatres, but in our suburban TV sets, the dance halls, pop music played in garages, and hip hop sung on our estates.

In Streetlife, Leif Jerram presents a totally new history of the 20th century, with the city at its heart, showing how everything distinctive about the century, from revolution and dictatorship to sexual liberation, was fundamentally shaped by the great urban centres which defined it.

©2011 Leif Jerram (P)2012 Audible, Inc.
Americas Europe United States Western Europe Capitalism Socialism Imperialism Liberalism War Social justice Middle Ages Russia Soviet Union Self-Determination

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