Table of Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Table of Contents v
3. Vorwort vii
4. List of Conference Participants ix
5. Fractured Modernity – Fractured Experiences – Fractured Histories: An Introduction 1
6. 1. Constructions of Consciousness
7. “Peculiarly a phenomenon of modern times”1: Bachelors, Urban Vice, and Strategies of Regulation in Modern America, 1870–1930 21
8. The “True Worship of Life”: Changing Notions of Happiness, Morality, and Religion in the United States, 1890–1940 43
9. 2. Transnational Perspectives
10. American Progressivism: Transnational, Modernization, and Americanist Perspectives 63
11. Conservation: America’s Environmental Modernism? 81
12. 3. Media, Politics, and Political Economy
13. The Press and the Repeal of National Prohibition 97
14. Modernity and Political Economy in the New Era and New Deal 129
15. 4. Race and Claims to Modernity
16. Lynching and the Ambivalence of Modernity 153
17. Torture and “Modern Civilization”: The NAACP’s Fight against Forced Confessions in the American South (1935–1945) 169
18. 5. The Search for a Cultural Core of Modernity
19. The Harlem Renaissance, 1919–1935 193
20. The Scopes Trial in the Context of Competing Modernity Discourses 213
21. Conclusion 235
22. Authors 241