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Susan L. Burns

Mapping Medical Modernity

Mapping Medical Modernity explores the history of medical modernization and public health in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Tokyo, a city undergoing rapid transformation from the seat of pow…

Zygmunt Bauman

Modernity and the Holocaust

Sociology is concerned with modern society, but has never come to terms with one of the most distinctive and horrific aspects of modernity - the Holocaust.The book examines what sociology can teach us abo…

Graeme Calloway

Empire, Modernity, and the Invasion Novel

Empire, Modernity, and the Invasion Novel: Invading Modernism is an examination of Late-Victorian and Edwardian popular literature, and the invasion novel genre in particular.Written at the height of Brit…

Experiencing Immersion in Antiquity and Modernity

This book examines the links between experiencing immersion in antiquity and modernity. Immersive experiences are big business within today's creative economy. Forms range from immersive museum exhibition…

Rebecca S. Graff

Disposing of Modernity

Exploring twentieth-century urban America through trash and artifacts from the 1893 Chicago World's FairThrough archaeological and archival research from sites associated with the 1893 World's Columbian E…

Michael C. Montesano

Capitalist Modernity, Dissident Metaphors

Capitalist Modernity, Dissident Metaphorsanalyzes expressive commonalities across dissident cultures in the contemporary transatlantic.This book coheres around the shared use of subversive metaphors in Af…

The Amish Struggle with Modernity

Throughout their history, the Amish communities of North America have tried to remain separate from the currents of progress that swirl in the larger society. The authors and others argue that although th…

Fashioning Chinese Women: Empire to Modernity

A visual chronology of modern Chinese fashion--from the fall of the Qing dynasty to the Cultural Revolution--as seen through 70 rare ensemblesPublished with Los Angeles County Museum of Art.This sumptuous…

Camila Gatica Mizala

Modernity at the Movies

Cinema can both reflect the world as it is and offer escape from it. In Modernity at the Movies, Camila Gatica Mizala explores the ideas of reflection versus escapism and examines how modes of understandi…

Chang Kyung-Sup

The Risk of Compressed Modernity

In many Asian societies, the process of modernization often took place in a rapid and highly compressed fashion - not over centuries, as had happened in most Western societies, but in several decades. Thi…

Chang Kyung-Sup

The Risk of Compressed Modernity

In many Asian societies, the process of modernization often took place in a rapid and highly compressed fashion - not over centuries, as had happened in most Western societies, but in several decades. Thi…

Silvia Valisa

The Periodical Life of Modernity

The Milan-based publishing firm Sonzogno was an essential yet historically overlooked cultural player in nineteenth-century Italy. Positioning Sonzogno as both exceptional in its commercial success and em…

Experiencing Immersion in Antiquity and Modernity

This bookexamines the links between experiencing immersion in antiquity and modernity.Immersive experiences are big business within today's creative economy.Forms range from immersive museum exhibitions, …

Eli Rubin

Kabbalah and the Rupture of Modernity

Kabbalah and the Rupture of Modernity provides a comprehensive intellectual and institutional history of Chabad Hasidism through the Kabbalistic concept of ṣimṣum . The onset of modernity, Eli Rubin argue…

The Making of Iranian Modernity

The Making of Iranian Modernity brings together a diverse array of scholars from a wide variety of disciplinary backgrounds and areas of research specialization to celebrate Houchang E. Chehabi, one of th…

Kathy Lavezzo

Bad Medievalism and the Modernity Problem

Challenges the assumptions made over the medieval/modern divide by examining the medieval roots of modern racismHumanists have long insisted on a chasm separating modernity and the Middle Ages. In Bad Med…

Kathy Lavezzo

Bad Medievalism and the Modernity Problem

Challenges the assumptions made over the medieval/modern divide by examining the medieval roots of modern racismHumanists have long insisted on a chasm separating modernity and the Middle Ages. In Bad Med…

Global Literatures and Cultures of Modernity

Global Literatures and Cultures of Modernity: Critical Perspectives from India brings together essays written by academicians and scholars from India to scrutinize how global modernities have been shaped …

Chris Stamey

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