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Fractured Modernity: America Confronts Modern Times, 1890s to 1940s

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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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Weitere Verfasser: Welskopp, Thomas (BerichterstatterIn) , Lessoff, Alan (BerichterstatterIn)
Dokumenttyp: Buch/Monographie
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: Berlin ;Boston De Gruyter Oldenbourg [2016]
Schriftenreihe:Schriften des Historischen Kollegs 83
Volumes / Articles: Show Volumes / Articles.
DOI:10.1515/9783110446746
Schlagworte:
United States > Social conditions > 1865-1918 > Congresses
United States > Social conditions > 1918-1932 > Congresses
United States > Social conditions > 1933-1945 > Congresses
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  • Frontmatter
  • 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
  • The Scopes Trial in the Context of Competing Modernity Discourses
  • Conclusion
  • Authors

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