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Kerilyn Schewel

Moved by Modernity

Across headlines and scholarly research alike, migration from countries like Ethiopia is often framed as a crisis: poverty, climate change, and conflict pushing people from their homes. These dominant &qu…

Julie Murray

Mary Wollstonecraft Against Modernity

For many, Mary Wollstonecraft functions as Western feminism's indisputable origin point and anchor. Once scorned as scandalous, later rehabilitated by the Victorians as a figure of hardworking traditional…

Sary Zananiri

Photographing Biblical Modernity

This open access book offers the first in-depth appraisal of the photographic archive of Frank Scholten (1881-1942), a queer Dutch photographer and Catholic convert whose work in Palestine between 1921 an…

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…

Chris Stamey

Modernism

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…

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…

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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…

Patrick Gamsby

Henri Lefebvre, Metaphilosophy, and Modernity

Henri Lefebvre, Metaphilosophy, and Modernityprovides a new interpretation of the work of Henri Lefebvre (1901-1991), reframing it as being above all a metaphilosophy of modernity.Henri Lefebvre is increa…

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…

W. Ian Bourland

Black and Gold - Transmutations of Metal and Modernity

For centuries, Africa has been the center of the global trade in gold. Synonymous with wealth and power in African cultures, this precious metal was also central to the emergence of Europe's colonial empi…

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…

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…

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 …