Book interviews tagged Modernity
Picturing American Modernity: Traffic, Technology, and Silent Cinema
- ISBN: 978 0 8223 4201 4 paper
- featured in: Silent cinema makes visible the ambivalence around modern technologies and traffic in early twentieth century AmericaJanuary 9, 2009
The Best of All Possible Worlds: A Story of Philosophers, God, and Evil
- ISBN: 978 0 374 22998 6
- featured in: A glimpse into the intellectual life of early modern EuropeJanuary 30, 2009
Art and the City: Civic Imagination and Cultural Authority in Los Angeles
- ISBN: 978 0 8122 4117 4
- featured in: On the fraught relationship between art and Los Angeles politicsMarch 20, 2009
Fresh: A Perishable History
- ISBN: 978 0 674 03291 0
- featured in: The farther we get from our food, the more we want to know that it’s really freshApril 17, 2009
Carl Hagenbeck’s Empire of Entertainments
- ISBN: 978 0 295 98833 7
- featured in: Challenging the idea of theme space as an essentially American phenomenonMay 4, 2009
Thomas Eakins and the Cultures of Modernity
- ISBN: 978 0520255203
- featured in: Approaching art history in a more ethical, interdisciplinary wayJune 17, 2009
The Once and Future New York: Historic Preservation and the Modern City
- ISBN: 978 0816656042
- featured in: Historic preservation is a fundamental part of every modern cityJuly 20, 2009
Theology of Money
- ISBN: 978-0822344506 pb
- featured in: Economic life is constrained by the perpetual need for acquiring moneyNovember 30, 2009
The Theater of Truth: The Ideology of (Neo)baroque Aesthetics
- ISBN: 978 0804769549
- featured in: Aesthetic experiences have a persistent potential to shape our thoughts, political endeavors, and sense of selfDecember 28, 2009
The Speed Handbook: Velocity, Pleasure, Modernism
- ISBN: 978 0822344421
- featured in: To understand modernity, you need to understand speedMay 24, 2010
Animal Characters: Nonhuman Beings in Early Modern Literature
- ISBN: 978 0812242492
- featured in: How animals changed at the dawn of the modern ageJune 28, 2010
