Book ID: CBB001031314

Urban Modernity: Cultural Innovation in the Second Industrial Revolution (2010)

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Levin, Miriam R. (Author)
et al. (Author)


MIT Press


Publication Date: 2010
Physical Details: x + 272 pp.; ill.; maps; bibl.; index
Language: English

Description Contents:


Reviewed By

Review Downey, Dennis B. (2011) Review of "Urban Modernity: Cultural Innovation in the Second Industrial Revolution". American Historical Review (pp. 1446-1446). unapi

Review Bud, Robert (2011) Review of "Urban Modernity: Cultural Innovation in the Second Industrial Revolution". British Journal for the History of Science (p. 301). unapi

Review Peckham, Robert (2011) Review of "Urban Modernity: Cultural Innovation in the Second Industrial Revolution". Centaurus: International Magazine of the History of Mathematics, Science, and Technology (p. 333). unapi

Review Chant, Colin (2011) Review of "Urban Modernity: Cultural Innovation in the Second Industrial Revolution". Technology and Culture (p. 833). unapi

Includes Chapters

Chapter Levin, Miriam R. (2010) Bringing the Future to Earth in Paris. In: Urban Modernity: Cultural Innovation in the Second Industrial Revolution. unapi

Chapter Forgan, Sophie (2010) From Modern Babylon to White City: Science, Technology and Urban Change in London, 1870--1914. In: Urban Modernity: Cultural Innovation in the Second Industrial Revolution. unapi

Chapter Hessler, Martina (2010) “Damned Always to Alter, but Never to Be”: Berlin's Culture of Change around 1900. In: Urban Modernity: Cultural Innovation in the Second Industrial Revolution. unapi

Chapter Levin, Miriam R. (2010) Dynamic Triad: City, Exposition, and Museum in Industrial Society. In: Urban Modernity: Cultural Innovation in the Second Industrial Revolution. unapi

Chapter Kargon, Robert Hugh; Kargon, Robert H. (2010) Counterrevolution of Progress: A Civic Culture of Modernity in Chicago, 1880--1910. In: Urban Modernity: Cultural Innovation in the Second Industrial Revolution. unapi

Chapter Low, Morris (2010) Promoting Scientific and Technological Change in Tokyo, 1870--1930: Museums, Industrial Exhibitions, and the City. In: Urban Modernity: Cultural Innovation in the Second Industrial Revolution. unapi

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Authors & Contributors
James, Kirsten
Lisa Reilly
Park, Sun-Young
Buxton, Hilary
Salzmann, Joshua A. T.
Davenport, Romola
Journals
Museum History Journal
History of Science
French Historical Studies
Environment and History
Economic History Review
British Journal for the History of Science
Publishers
University of Chicago Press
MIT Press
University of Western Ontario (Canada)
V&R Unipress
University of Virginia Press
University of Pittsburgh Press
Concepts
Urban history
Urbanization
Museums
Science and society
Urban planning
Public health
People
Divers, Edward
Time Periods
19th century
20th century
18th century
21st century
20th century, early
17th century
Places
London (England)
Paris (France)
Chicago (Illinois, U.S.)
Berlin (Germany)
Tokyo (Japan)
New York City (New York, U.S.)
Institutions
Parkes Museum of Hygiene
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