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Matthias Buschle & Daniel Hagmann
How Basel changed the world [EPUB ebook]

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This book is all about events, discoveries and ideas which may have seemed small and insignificant at the time but later changed the world. DDT and LSD, Frick & Frack, the Basel Mission and the Zionist World Congress, Tadeus Reichstein and Friedrich Nietzsche, the first printed edition of the Koran and much else provide the stuff of which exciting stories are made in Basel, the hub of the universe.

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About the author

Matthias Buschle (*1970) is an art historian, journalist and exhibition curator.
Daniel Hagmann (*1966) has a Ph D in history and has been writing for many years on the cultural history of the Basel region.

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Language English ● Format EPUB ● Pages 176 ● ISBN 9783856166755 ● File size 0.8 MB ● Publisher Merian, Christoph ● City Basel ● Country CH ● Published 2015 ● Downloadable 24 months ● Currency EUR ● ID 4062972 ● Copy protection Social DRM

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