Fractured modernity : America confronts modern times, 1890s to 1940s / Herausgegeben von Thomas Welskopp, Alan Lessoff unter Mitarbeit von Elisabeth Müller-Luckner.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Welskopp, Thomas

Contributor:

Welskopp, Thomas, editor.

Lessoff, Alan, editor.

Series:

Schriften des Historischen Kollegs. Kolloquien ; 83.

Schriften des Historischen Kollegs. Kolloquien ; 83

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States--Social conditions--1865-1918.

United States.

United States--Social conditions--1918-1932.

United States--Social conditions--1933-1945.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (256 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

München, [Germany] : R. Oldenbourg Verlag, 2012.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

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

Notes:

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ISBN:

3-11-044674-X

OCLC:

951978054