Fractured modernity [electronic resource] : America confronts modern times, 1890s to 1940s / herausgegeben von Thomas Welskopp und Alan Lessoff.
The ten essays in this volume deal with the debates and conflicts about modernity in a period of American history when the tensions and strains caused by seemingly unrestrained change and the reactions to it were particularly severe and tangible. Partly concentrating on the margins or dark underworl...
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| Language: | English |
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Mùˆnchen :
R. Oldenbourg Verlag,
2012.
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| Series: | Schriften des Historischen Kollegs. Kolloquien ;
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Table of Contents:
- Table of Contents ; Vorwort ; List of Conference Participants ; Fractured Modernity
- Fractured Experiences
- Fractured Histories: An Introduction ; 1. Constructions of Consciousness
- "Peculiarly a phenomenon of modern times"1: Bachelors, Urban Vice, and Strategies of Regulation in Modern America, 1870-1930 The "True Worship of Life": Changing Notions of Happiness, Morality, and Religion in the United States, 1890-1940 ; 2. Transnational Perspectives
- American Progressivism: Transnational, Modernization, and Americanist Perspectives Conservation: America's Environmental Modernism? ; 3. Media, Politics, and Political Economy ; The Press and the Repeal of National Prohibition ; Modernity and Political Economy in the New Era and New Deal
- 4. Race and Claims to Modernity Lynching and the Ambivalence of Modernity ; Torture and "Modern Civilization": The NAACP's Fight against Forced Confessions in the American South (1935-1945) ; 5. The Search for a Cultural Core of Modernity
- The Harlem Renaissance, 1919-1935. American Modernism, Multiple Modernities or Postcolonial Diaspora? The Scopes Trial in the Context of Competing Modernity Discourses ; Conclusion ; Authors