The Rise of Popular Antimodernism in Germany: The Urban Master Artisans, 1873-1896

by Shulamit Volkov

Book Overview

Antimodernism, a popular movement growing out of fear and hostility toward an emerging new world, became a central ideological trend in late nineteenth-century Europe. Shulamit Volkov explains its development in Germany by providing a biography of one group--the urban master artisans--whose political attitudes came to be dominated by antimodernist feelings.

As small, independently employed practitioners of traditional crafts, the master...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691642427
• ISBN13: 9780691642420
• Release Date: April 2016
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 412 Pages
• Weight: 1.66 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.2"