Recognising European Modernities : A Montage of the Present

ISBN-13: 9780415119047 / Angielski / Twarda / 1995 / 292 str.

Allan Richard Pred;Pred Allan

Opis

For over a century, Europe has been characterized by a plurality of capitalist modernities. At any moment, each country possesses its own distinctly modern qualities which are partly shaped through interrelationships with other countries. Each European commodity society has experienced successive, but different overlapping, periods of industrial modernity (large scale factories and urban growth), high modernity (social modernization promoted by social engineering) and hypermodernity (the acceleration of modernity, yielding new circumstances and sensibilities). Interrogating contemporary, hypermodern Europe thus requires an exploration of industrial and high modern Europe.

Spis treści

Acknowledgments, For(e) Montage: Swedish Modern and the Recognition of European Modernities, CHAPTER ONE: Spectacular Articulations of Modernity: The Stockholm Exhibition of 1897, CHAPTER TWO: Pure and Simple Lines, Future Lines of Vision: The Stockholm Exhibition of 1930, CHAPTER THREE: Where in the World Am I, Are We? Who in the World Am I, Are We?: The Glob(e)alization of Stockholm, Sweden, After Montage: Or What?, Bibliography, Index

O autorze

Allan Pred