April 2024
Intermediate to advanced
160 pages
5h 15m
English
As many readers will realize, the title of this chapter paraphrases the title of the 1942 autobiographical novel The World of Yesterday: Memories of a European by Austrian writer Stefan Zweig (1942). In his memoirs, the author provides an effective and emotional glimpse of the world as it was before the First World War: The World of Yesterday.
The aim of this chapter is to guide the reader during through a phase in world history that was characterized by an intense process of “globalization”, as defined in Chapter 1. Of course, Zweig’s contemporaries did not use this term; they preferred the exotic and sophisticated-sounding ...
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