[Download] "Being Modern" by Robert Bud, Paul Greenhalgh, Frank James & Morag Shiach # Book PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: Being Modern
- Author : Robert Bud, Paul Greenhalgh, Frank James & Morag Shiach
- Release Date : January 10, 2018
- Genre: History,Books,Science & Nature,Nonfiction,Social Science,Society,Europe,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 10238 KB
Description
In the early decades of the twentieth century,
engagement with science was commonly used as an emblem of modernity. This
phenomenon is now attracting increasing attention in different historical
specialties. Being Modern builds on this recent scholarly interest to
explore engagement with science across culture from the end of the nineteenth
century to approximately 1940.
Addressing the breadth of cultural forms in Britain
and the western world from the architecture of Le Corbusier to working class
British science fiction, Being Modern paints a rich picture. Seventeen
distinguished contributors from a range of fields including the cultural
study of science and technology, art and architecture, English culture and
literature examine the issues involved. The book will be a valuable resource
for students, and a spur to scholars to further examination of culture as an
interconnected web of which science was a critical part, and to supersede such
tired formulations as 'Science and culture'.