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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Stranger than we can imagine
    sub title: an alternative history of the 20th century
  name:
    name part: Higgs, John.
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: cau
    date issued: 2015
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 341 pages ; 23 cm.
  abstract: In Stranger Than We Can Imagine, John Higgs argues that before 1900, history seemed to make sense. We can understand innovations like electricity, agriculture and democracy. The twentieth century, in contrast, gave us relativity, cubism, quantum mechanics, the id, existentialism, Stalin, psychedelics, chaos mathematics, climate change and postmodernism. In order to understand such a disorienting barrage of unfamiliar and knotty ideas, Higgs shows us, we need to shift the framework of our interpretation and view these concepts within the context of a new kind of historical narrative. Instead of looking at it as another step forward in a stable path, we need to look at the twentieth century as a chaotic seismic shift, upending all linear narratives. Higgs invites us along as he journeys across a century "about which we know too much" in order to grant us a new perspective on it. He brings a refreshingly non-academic, eclectic and infectiously energetic approach to his subjects as well as a unique ability to explain how complex ideas connect and intersect-whether he's discussing Einstein's theories of relativity, the Beat poets' interest in Eastern thought or the bright spots and pitfalls of the American Dream.
  note: John Higgs.
  note: "Originally published in the UK by Weidenfeld & Nicolson"--Title page verso.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    topic: HISTORY / Social History
  subject:
    topic: Civilization, Modern
    temporal: 20th century
  subject:
    topic: Twentieth century
  classification: CB425 .H45 2015
  classification: 909.82
  identifier: 9781593766269
  identifier: 1593766262
  identifier: 2015030018
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 150921
    record change date: 20170928105939.0
    record identifier: in00003605948