Modris Eksteins is an award-winning Canadian historian who has written numerous books, including Walking Since Daybreak, Solar Dance, and Limits of Reason. He has won many awards, including the Ferguson Prize and the Trillium Book Award. Modris is a professor emeritus of history at the University of Toronto Scarborough.
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Dazzling in its originality, Rites of Spring probes the origins, impact, and aftermath of World War I, from the premiere of Stravinsky's ballet The Rite of Spring in 1913 to the death of Hitler in 1945. 'The Great War,' as Modris Eksteins writes, 'was the... SEE MORE