Fractured Modernity. America Confronts Modern Times, 1890s to 1940s

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 underworl...

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Päätekijät: Welskopp, Thomas, Lessoff, Alan
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