Jerzy Jedlicki is Professor emeritus at the Institute of History at the Polish Academy of Sciences where he headed the research group for the history of the intelligentsia. He also was a fellow at the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington D.C. in 1989–90. His expertise is European social and intellectual history of the 18th–20th c.

• Contents: Degeneration – Degenerate – Modernity – Decline of civilisation – Darwinism – Crisis – Victorian Era – Edwardian Era – Fin de Siècle – Turn of the century – City on trial – Industrial cities – Progress – Eugenics – Post-Enlightenment – Science Fiction – Mechanical Age – Romanticism – Railways – Steam Age – The West.

Jerzy Jedlicki is Professor emeritus at the Institute of History at the Polish Academy of Sciences where he headed the research group for the history of the intelligentsia. He also was a fellow at the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington D.C. in 1989–90. His expertise is European social and intellectual history of the 18th–20th c.

• Contents: Degeneration – Degenerate – Modernity – Decline of civilisation – Darwinism – Crisis – Victorian Era – Edwardian Era – Fin de Siècle – Turn of the century – City on trial – Industrial cities – Progress – Eugenics – Post-Enlightenment – Science Fiction – Mechanical Age – Romanticism – Railways – Steam Age – The West.

Jerzy Jedlicki is Professor emeritus at the Institute of History at the Polish Academy of Sciences where he headed the research group for the history of the intelligentsia. He also was a fellow at the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington D.C. in 1989–90. His expertise is European social and intellectual history of the 18th–20th c.

• Contents: Degeneration – Degenerate – Modernity – Decline of civilisation – Darwinism – Crisis – Victorian Era – Edwardian Era – Fin de Siècle – Turn of the century – City on trial – Industrial cities – Progress – Eugenics – Post-Enlightenment – Science Fiction – Mechanical Age – Romanticism – Railways – Steam Age – The West.