Fractured Modernity : America Confronts Modern Times, 1890s To 1940s.

Intro -- Table of Contents -- Vorwort -- List of Conference Participants -- Fractured Modernity - Fractured Experiences - Fractured Histories: An Introduction -- 1. Constructions of Consciousness -- "Peculiarly a phenomenon of modern times"1: Bachelors, Urban Vice, and Strategies of Regulation in Modern America, 1870-1930 -- The "True Worship of Life": Changing Notions of Happiness, Morality, and Religion in the United States, 1890-1940 -- 2. Transnational Perspectives -- American Progressivism: Transnational, Modernization, and Americanist Perspectives -- Conservation: America's Environmental Modernism? -- 3. Media, Politics, and Political Economy -- The Press and the Repeal of National Prohibition -- Modernity and Political Economy in the New Era and New Deal -- 4. Race and Claims to Modernity -- Lynching and the Ambivalence of Modernity -- Torture and "Modern Civilization": The NAACP's Fight against Forced Confessions in the American South (1935-1945) -- 5. The Search for a Cultural Core of Modernity -- The Harlem Renaissance, 1919-1935. American Modernism, Multiple Modernities or Postcolonial Diaspora? -- The Scopes Trial in the Context of Competing Modernity Discourses -- Conclusion -- Authors.

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