Provincial Modernity: Local Culture and Liberal Politics in Fin-De-Siècle Hamburg

by Jennifer Jenkins and Jennifer Jenkins

A history of the making of public culture in Imperial Germany, Provincial Modernity challenges traditional accounts of the rise and fall of German liberalism and the meaning given to the cultural work of the German middle classes. With an interdisciplinary approach that ranges from political history to modernist art and architecture, Jennifer Jenkins explores the role that local tradition, memory, history, culture, and environment played...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801440254
• ISBN13: 9780801440250
• Release Date: November 2002
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.46 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.8" x 9.1"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher