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The Challenge of Modernity - German Social and Cultural Studies, 1890-1960 (Hardcover)
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The Challenge of Modernity - German Social and Cultural Studies, 1890-1960 (Hardcover)
Series: Social History, Popular Culture and Politics in Germany
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Adelheid von Saldern is one of the most productive, thoughtful, and
innovative researchers in the field of twentieth-century German
history. Her already long career has been distinguished by a
willingness to take intellectual risks by participating in new
historiographical movements, borrowing from cultural anthropology,
focusing on the social and cultural history of everyday life, and
demonstrating the importance of gender history. In this volume, she
expressly focuses on the various challenges modernity posed to
German society between 1900 and 1960. Throughout, von Saldern is
particularly concerned with public perceptions, debates, and
attitudes.
The essays contained in "The Challenge of Modernity" cover three
distinct subject areas: the history of the Social Democratic labor
movement, housing, and popular and mass culture. More specifically,
von Saldern addresses the self-modernizing Social Democratic Party;
Social Democrats' and Communists' opposing views of modernization;
social rationalization in the private sphere (particularly with
regard to women and hygiene); sport; the arrival of "trashy"
literature, movies, and radio in Germany; and cultural
conservatives' attempts to enhance a national and "Volks"-culture
in opposition to mass-culture, Americanization, and the
avant-garde. The variety of responses to the modernization process,
as well as von Saldern's focus on social agents, makes this book
unique.
Required reading for scholars of social, cultural, and gender
history, "The Challenge of Modernity" will also find an audience
among urban anthropologists, political scientists, and
sociologists. Von Saldern's ability to combine a strong theoretical
framework withconcrete historical examples will also make this
outstanding reading for undergraduate and graduate students seeking
to familiarize themselves with the history of German society and
culture.
Adelheid von Saldern is Professor of Modern History and Director,
Historisches Seminar, Universitat Hanover.
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