Fractured Modernity
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Edited by:
Thomas Welskopp
About this book
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.
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1. Constructions of Consciousness
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Daniel Siemens Publicly Available Download PDF |
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Frank Uekötter Publicly Available Download PDF |
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Linards Udris Publicly Available Download PDF |
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Christopher McKnight Nichols Publicly Available Download PDF |
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4. Race and Claims to Modernity
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Manfred Berg Publicly Available Download PDF |
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Silvan Niedermeier Publicly Available Download PDF |
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5. The Search for a Cultural Core of Modernity
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American Modernism, Multiple Modernities or Postcolonial Diaspora? Norbert Finzsch Publicly Available Download PDF |
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Michael Hochgeschwender Publicly Available Download PDF |
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