Vienna – How the City of Ideas Created the Modern World
By Richard Cockett
Yale University Press £25
The story of Vienna's role as a radical cultural centre from around 1870 to the 1930s is fascinating.
The Habsburg Empire was an amalgam of countries, nationalities and religious groups yoked together under the conservative leadership of the Emperor Franz-Joseph I.
But Vienna stood apart in important ways. Not all of Vienna was liberal or radical, but liberal/radical Vienna was
