Looking Backward: A Photographic Portrait of the World at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century

by Michael Lesy

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Pull the yellowed card from the box and slide it into the viewer. Two binocular images, nearly identical, reveal a scene from the past in vivid, three-dimensional detail. Transcending space and time, the card shows the world as it existed in 1900, a moment when technology collapsed borders; when wars ignited between great powers; when natural forces brought disaster on surging, vulnerable cities--a moment very much like our own.

In 1900 the...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:039323973X

ISBN13:9780393239737

Release Date:April 2017

Publisher:W. W. Norton & Company

Length:256 Pages

Weight:3.45 lbs.

Dimensions:1.0" x 9.8" x 10.3"

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