Meanings of modernity : Britain from the late-Victorian era to World War II / edited by Martin Daunton and Bernhard Rieger.
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| Language: | English |
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Oxford :
Berg,
2001.
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| Physical Description: | x, 250 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Format: | Book |
Contents:
- Travelling in the Lady Guides' London : consumption, modernity, and the fin-de-siècle metropolis / Erika D. Rappaport
- Advertising, the modernist aesthetic of the marketplace? The cultural relationship between the tobacco manufacturer and the "mass" of consumers in Britain, 1870-1940 / Matthew Hilton
- Occultism and the "modern" self in fin-de-siècle Britain / Alex Owen
- Psychology and the "consciousness of modernity" in early twentieth-century Britain / Mathew Thomson
- The consciousness of modernity? Liberalism and the English "national character," 1870-1940 / Peter Mandler
- Envisioning the future : British and German reactions to the Paris World Fair in 1900 / Bernhard Rieger
- Modernity, community and hisotry : narratives of innovation in the British coal industry / Michael Dintenfass
- Modern mountains : the performative consciousness of modernity in Britain, 1870-1940 / Peter H. Hansen
- Modernity and trusteeship : tensions of empire in Britain betweeen the wars / Susan Pedersen
- From somebodies to nobodies : Britons returning home from India / Elizabeth Buettner.