The Europeans: three lives and the making of a cosmopolitan culture
- Submitting institution
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Birkbeck College
- Unit of assessment
- 28 - History
- Output identifier
- 245
- Type
- A - Authored book
- DOI
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- Publisher
- Allen Lane, Penguin
- ISBN
- 9780241004890
- Open access status
- Out of scope for open access requirements
- Month of publication
- September
- Year of publication
- 2019
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- The Europeans is based on eight years of research in archives and libraries across Europe and the USA. It has a bibliography of over 1800 books and articles in eight different languages. 250,000 words in length, the book is at one level a biography of three connected people (Ivan Turgenev, Pauline Viardot-Garcia, and Louis Viardot) and, at another, a panoramic view of the technologies (e.g. railways, lithography) and developments in mass tourism, publishing and copyright, business management and marketing which facilitated the dissemination of a European canon in music, artworks, literature and opera. Shortlisted for the Duff Cooper Prize.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
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- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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