In his new study “The Europeans” he aims “to approach Europe as a space of cultural transfers, translations and exchanges crossing national boundaries, out of which a ‘European culture’-an international synthesis of artistic forms, ideas and styles-would come into existence and distinguish Europe from the broader world. Dismayed at this tendency, Orlando Figes, a noted historian of Russia, found himself wondering whether the forces of transnational integration weren’t at least as decisive as those that would drive cultures apart. Photo: Bridgeman ImagesĬultural history is frequently written as if circumscribed by national borders, with each country laying claim to a discrete social and intellectual way of life. ‘The Gare Saint-Lazare: Arrival of a Train’ (1877) by Claude Monet.
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