No Place of Grace - Antimodernism and the Transformation of American Culture, 1880-1920 (Paperback, Enlarged edition)

First published in 1981, T. J. Jackson Lears's No Place of Grace is a landmark book in American studies and American history, acclaimed for both its rigorous research and the deft fluidity of its prose. A study of responses to the emergent culture of corporate capitalism at the turn of the twentieth century, No Place of Grace charts the development of contemporary consumer society through the embrace of antimodernism-the effort among middle- and upper-class Americans to recapture feelings of authentic experience. Rather than offer true resistance to the increasingly corporatized bureaucracy of the time, however, antimodernism helped accommodate Americans to the new order-it was therapeutic rather than oppositional, a striking forerunner to today's self-help culture. And yet antimodernism contributed a new dynamic as well, "an eloquent edge of protest," as Lears puts it, which is evident even today in anticonsumerism, sustainable living, and other practices. This new edition, with a lively and discerning foreword by Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen, celebrates the fortieth anniversary of this singular work of history.

General

Imprint:	University of Chicago Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	August 2021
Authors:	T.J.Jackson Lears
Foreword by:	Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 24mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	408
Edition:	Enlarged edition
ISBN-13:	978-0-226-79444-0
Categories:	Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Cultural studies > History of ideas, intellectual history Books > Humanities > History > American history > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Anthropology > General Books > History > American history > General
LSN:	0-226-79444-X
Barcode:	9780226794440

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