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Urban Modernity cultural innovation in the Second Industrial Revolution / Miriam R. Levin ... [et al.].
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Urbanization--History.
- Urbanization.
- Technological innovations--Economic aspects--History.
- Technological innovations.
- Industrialization--History.
- Industrialization.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (283 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, MA : MIT Press, c2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- At the close of the 19th century, industrialization and urbanization marked the end of the traditional understanding of society as rooted in agriculture. This book examines the construction of an urban-centred, industrial-based culture - an entirely new social reality based on science and technology.
- Contents:
- Contents ; Figures ; Preface ; 1 - Dynamic Triad: City, Exposition, and Museum in Industrial Society ; 2 - Bringing the Future to Earth in Paris: 1851-1914 ; 3 - From Modern Babylon to White City: Science, Technology, and Urban Change in London, 1870-1914 ; 4 - The Counterrevolution of Progress: A Civic Culture of Modernity in Chicago, 1880-1910 ; 5 - ""Damned Always to Alter, But Never to Be"": Berlin's Culture of Change Around 1900 ; 6 - Promoting Scientific and Technological Change in Tokyo, 1870-1930: Museums, Industrial Exhibitions, and the City ; 7 - Coda ; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786612638237
- 9780262265638
- 026226563X
- 9781282638235
- 1282638238
- 9780262265935
- 0262265931
- OCLC:
- 646068760
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