{"product_id":"20910504","title":"The Alienation Effect: How Central European Emigres Transformed The British Twentieth Century","description":"\u003ch1\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003ccenter\u003eThe Alienation Effect: How Central European Emigres Transformed The British Twentieth Century\u003c\/center\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h1\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Dazzling ... The remarkable story of how British culture was transformed by emigre architects, filmmakers and writers' \u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e  \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBritain. Made in Europe.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn the 1930s, tens of thousands of central Europeans sought sanctuary from fascism in Britain. While the rainy, seemingly quaint island they discovered on arrival was a far cry from the dynamism of Weimar Berlin or Red Vienna, it was safe, and it became home. Yet the emigres had not arrived alone: they brought with them new and radical ideas, and as they began to rebuild their lives and livelihoods, they transformed the face of Britain forever.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDrawing on an immense cast of artists and intellectuals, including celebrated figures like Erno Goldfinger, forgotten luminaries like Ruth Glass, and a host of larger-than-life visionaries and charlatans, the historian Owen Hatherley argues that in the resulting clash between European modernism and British moderation, our imaginations were fundamentally realigned and remade for the better. In casting what Bertolt Brecht called, in a new German word, a \u003ci\u003eVerfremdungseffekt\u003c\/i\u003e, an ‘alienation effect’, on Britain, the aliens made us all a little bit alien too.\u003cbr\u003eProvocative, entertaining and meticulously researched, \u003ci\u003eThe Alienation Effect \u003c\/i\u003eopens our eyes to the influence of the emigres all around us – many of our most quintessentially British icons are the product of this culture clash – and entreats us to remember and renew our proud national tradition of asylum.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Owen Hatherley turns to a gentler kind of insurgency in\u003ci\u003e The Alienation Effect\u003c\/i\u003e – a group biography of the architects, designers and directors from Mitteleuropa who washed up on Britain’s shores in the middle of the last century. We already know the assimilated conservatives – Friedrich Hayek and Karl Popper – but Hatherley gives us the forgotten radicals who put concrete into our skyline and shook us out of our complacency' - Guardian, Best History and Politics Books 2025\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Impassioned and erudite, Hatherley writes with panache and never becomes flat-footedly ideological... In drawing attention to a hugely important yet neglected phenomenon that has shaped our culture for better and worse, this is a genuinely important study that deserves to win prizes' - Telegraph\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Meticulously researched... Hatherley is an exhilarating guide' - Financial Times\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Hatherley writes with wit throughout as he charts the tragic and comic turns of the lives of emigres with a warm familiarity and affection. With his sharp eye for what lies beneath the mundane, he reveals how Central Europeans influenced the everyday apparatus of British cultural life... \u003ci\u003eThe Alienation Effect \u003c\/i\u003ereveals just how tightly the foreign is woven into the fabric of the familiar' - Times Literary Supplement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'The radicalism of the emigres, Hatherley convincingly shows, has been concealed by the manipulations of national memory... Aby Warburg’s credo was \u003ci\u003eKulturwissenschaft\u003c\/i\u003e, a scientific approach to cultural studies that turned on connections and juxtapositions. Hatherley is a worthy heir to that tradition, and he has a canny eye for lineages. His potted genealogies are dazzling performances in concision, effortlessly gliding from the new brutalism of his home patch of Camberwell, London, through the works of art historian Rudolf Wittkower to the 15th-century Renaissance humanist Leon Battista Alberti – all in a single page' - Guardian\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Hatherley, whose background is in writing about architecture, moves with confidence through the fields of film, typography and art. The book is thick with information, sometimes resembling the gazetteers or guides he has previously written... It’s often acute, informative, passionate and witty, a sometimes moving tribute to achievements in the face of adversity, and an essential antidote to crude theories of national identity' - Observer\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Hatherley offers a set of vivid and consistently stimulating portraits of individual artists and thinkers… This is an admirable book, ambitious in its scope and very readable… Hatherley proves himself a fair-minded historian, capable of intellectual generosity even towards people and traditions he deplores… This book will stimulate readers' - New Statesman\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Encyclopaedic... Fascinating' - Spectator\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'A combination of jewel-like detail and panoramic sweep… Arresting… This monumental work secures for Hatherley his place in the tradition of English writers who have moralized about architecture, a lineage stretching from John Ruskin to Ian Nairn and, yes, Pevsner… A passionate, erudite book' - Jacobin\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch2\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSPECIFICATIONS:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003eOwen Hatherly - Оуэн Хатерли\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/strong\u003ePenguin\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/strong\u003eEnglish\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e2026\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e608 pst\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFormat:\u003c\/strong\u003ePaperback\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWidth:\u003c\/strong\u003e128 mm \/ 5'\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHeight:\u003c\/strong\u003e198 mm \/ 7,8'\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWeight:\u003c\/strong\u003e424 g\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e9780141989778\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49418157162634,"sku":"20910504","price":82.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0643\/1070\/6314\/files\/The_Alienation_Effect_How_Central_European_Emigres_Transformed_The_British_Twentieth_Century_Owen_Hatherly_-_9780141989778-1.jpg?v=1778692936","url":"https:\/\/bookstoreint.com\/products\/20910504","provider":"Bookstore International","version":"1.0","type":"link"}