Fractured modernity : : America confronts modern times, 1890s to 1940s / / Herausgegeben von Thomas Welskopp, Alan Lessoff unter Mitarbeit von Elisabeth Müller-Luckner.
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Welskopp, Thomas auth Fractured modernity : America confronts modern times, 1890s to 1940s / Herausgegeben von Thomas Welskopp, Alan Lessoff unter Mitarbeit von Elisabeth Müller-Luckner. 1st ed. De Gruyter 2013 München, [Germany] : R. Oldenbourg Verlag, 2012. ©2012 1 online resource (256 p.) text rdacontent computer rdamedia online resource rdacarrier Schriften des Historischen Kollegs. Kolloquien ; 83 Description based upon print version of record. Front matter -- Table of Contents -- Vorwort -- List of Conference Participants -- Fractured Modernity - Fractured Experiences - Fractured Histories: An Introduction / Welskopp, Thomas / Lessoff, Alan -- 1. Constructions of Consciousness -- "Peculiarly a phenomenon of modern times"1: Bachelors, Urban Vice, and Strategies of Regulation in Modern America, 1870-1930 / Martschukat, Jürgen -- The "True Worship of Life": Changing Notions of Happiness, Morality, and Religion in the United States, 1890-1940 / Siemens, Daniel -- 2. Transnational Perspectives -- American Progressivism: Transnational, Modernization, and Americanist Perspectives / Lessoff, Alan -- Conservation: America's Environmental Modernism? / Uekötter, Frank -- 3. Media, Politics, and Political Economy -- The Press and the Repeal of National Prohibition / Udris, Linards -- Modernity and Political Economy in the New Era and New Deal / Nichols, Christopher McKnight -- 4. Race and Claims to Modernity -- Lynching and the Ambivalence of Modernity / Berg, Manfred -- Torture and "Modern Civilization": The NAACP's Fight against Forced Confessions in the American South (1935-1945) / Niedermeier, Silvan -- 5. The Search for a Cultural Core of Modernity -- The Harlem Renaissance, 1919-1935 / Finzsch, Norbert -- The Scopes Trial in the Context of Competing Modernity Discourses / Hochgeschwender, Michael -- Conclusion / Lessoff, Alan -- Authors This eBook is made available Open Access under a FA license: https://www.degruyter.com/dg/page/free-access-policy https://www.degruyter.com/dg/page/open-access-policy 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 underworlds of modernity, such as racism and violence, partly focusing on the allegedly unlimited space to negotiate and create social order from scratch, the contributions to this volume show that, and discuss why, modernity was an issue in contemporary United States which seemed to have been even more hotly contested than in Europe at the same time, albeit sometimes in terms of "Americanism" rather than "modernism". In this book, European scholars of the United States apply variations on the transnational discourse on modernity to unexpected dimensions of U.S. history, making this volume a fascinating example of the present-day enterprise of internationalizing American studies. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed June 24, 2016). Issued also in print. United States Social conditions 1865-1918. United States Social conditions 1918-1932. United States Social conditions 1933-1945. HISTORY / General. bisacsh Welskopp, Thomas, editor. Lessoff, Alan, editor. 3-486-71695-6 Schriften des Historischen Kollegs. Kolloquien ; 83. |
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