• Nordic Modernities. From Historical Region to Five Exceptions 

  Marjanen, Jani (Uopen Journals, 2015-06-04)

  Several recent books discuss issues of Nordic modernity. While Nordic history often tends to emphasize the similarities between the five countries, these recent books present the Nordic countries as less of a unitary region ...
• Formations of European Modernity. Cosmopolitanism, Eurocentrism and the Uses of History 

  Pasture, Patrick (Uopen Journals, 2015-06-04)

  InFormations of European Modernity, Gerard Delanty, one of the foremost social theoreticians of Europe, offers a historical-sociological assessment of the idea of Europe as the development of modernity from a cosmopolitan ...
• Back to the Future? History, Material Culture and New Materialism 

  Schouwenburg, Hans (Igitur, 2015-04-23)

  The study of history currently witnesses two markedly different material turns. Some historians are using material artefacts as alternatives to textual sources. Others draw on ‘new materialism’, a new tradition in thought ...
• How Modern was Chinese Modernity? Exploring Tensions of a Contested Master Narrative 

  Klein, Thoralf (Igitur, 2015-01-05)

  “Modernity” continues to be a useful historiographical tool, however, it is tension-laden both theoretically and empirically. Conceptually, “modernity” can denote either a quality (“modern-ness”) or a condition referring ...
• Against the Anthropocene : A Neo-Materialist Perspective 

  LeCain, Timothy James (Igitur, 2015-04-23)

  The dawning realization that the planet may have entered a new geological epoch called the Anthropocene could prove transformative. However, over the course of its brief history, the Anthropocene concept has often been ...
• Islamic Tradition and Meanings of Modernity 

  Poljarevic, Emin (Igitur, 2015-04-23)

  The debate about the compatibility of modernity and (the) Islamic tradition is, at this point, centuries old. This article analyzes some of its most recent expressions. The guiding question here is one about the meaning(s) ...
• Island of Memories. Postcolonial Historiography and Public Discourse in Contemporary Taiwan 

  Chang, Lung-chih (Igitur, 2015-01-05)

  The re-discovery of Taiwanese history along with both official and local initiatives of cultural heritage and public commemorations constitutes an important postcolonial cultural phenomenon. This paper discusses the “memory ...
• Dreaming the Chinese Dream. How the People’s Republic of China Moved from Revolutionary Goals to Global Ambitions 

  Landsberger, Stefan R. (Igitur, 2015-01-05)

  On 1 October 2014, the People’s Republic of China (PRC) will observe the 65^th anniversary of its founding which ended a decades’ long period of oppression by imperialism, internal strife and (civil) war. Under ...
• The Chinese Path to Modernisation. Discussions of “Culture” and “Morality” in Republican China 

  Hon, Tze-ki (Igitur, 2015-01-05)

  this paper, I will examine the notion of “alternative modernity” that was prominent during Republican China. In the first section, I will discuss “the debate on science and the philosophy of life” (1923) and the debate ...
• Backwards Into the Light. Cultural Modernity and the Renaissance 

  Spiller, Michael R.G. (Igitur, 2013-12-30)

  This article looks at the textual practices used by humanist and  Reformation writers to modernise their textual legacies from classical and Biblical antiquity. By a process which I have called “textual proclamation” these ...
• Traveling Architecture. East German Urban Designs in Vietnam 

  Schwenkel, Christina (Igitur, 2014-11-14)

  Scholars have long been interested in architecture and urban planning as a cultural battleground during the Cold War. What is less known, however, is how the ideological conflict over urban practices played out beyond the ...
• From Economic Equality to “Mommy Politics”. Women Artists and the Challenges of Gender in East German Painting 

  Eisman, April A. (Igitur, 2014-11-14)

  This article looks at the impact that East Germany 's gender policies had on the visual arts and especially women painters across four decades. The first two sections focus on women 's participation in the national art ...
• Introduction. History, Culture and Modernity in China 

  Müller, Gotelind (Igitur, 2015-01-05)

  The article provides a short introduction to the main topics and aims of this thematic issue on history, culture and modernity in China. It outlines the multi-faceted approaches to a (or more than one) modernity between ...
• New Belgrade and Socialist Yugoslavia’s Three Globalisations 

  Kulić, Vladimir (Igitur, 2014-11-14)

  New Belgrade was the most ambitious urban project of Yugoslavia ’s socialist modernisation. Its fabric bears the inscriptions of three distinct globalisation projects in which the country participated as its foreign policy ...
• Makeshift Modernity. DIY, Craft and the Virtuous Homemaker in New Soviet Housing of the 1960s 

  Reid, Susan E. (Igitur, 2014-11-14)

  In cities across the Soviet Union in the late 1950s and early 1960s, new housing developments of plain five-storey apartment blocks mushroomed thanks to an intensive programme for mass industrialised housing construction ...
• Leadership in Modern Times. Reflections on Yves Cohen’s Le siècle des chefs1 

  Föllmer, Moritz (Igitur, 2014-11-04)

  This review article discusses Yves Cohen’s recent book Le siècle des chefs: Une histoire transnationale du commandement et de l’autorité (1890-1940 ). Cohen provides an extensive analysis of discourses on leadership in ...
• Introduction. Socialist Culture and Modernity 

  Segal, Joes (Igitur, 2014-11-14)

  DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5117/HCM2014.2.SEGA
• Media, the Elite and Modernity. Defining the Modern among the Finnish Cultural Intelligentsia in the Twentieth Century 

  Kortti, Jukka (Igitur, 2014-11-04)

  This paper discusses how the Finnish intelligentsia has defined the modern and has reacted to modernity in the twentieth century. The cultural intelligentsia has had an important role in this process, since in Finland ...
• Blurred Lines. History, Memory and the Experience of Time 

  Lorenz, Chris (Igitur, 2014-11-04)

  This article argues that fundamental controversial parts of the past – that since 1990 have been labeled as “catastrophic”, “post-traumatic”, “terroristic” and “haunting” – are overstretching the normal “historical” concept ...
• Empires, Modernisation and Modernities 

  Ballantyne, Tony (Igitur, 2014-11-04)

  In examining four recent books, this essay explores some key facets of contemporary scholarship on empire and the making of the modern world. Drawing on Dipesh Chakrabarty’s arguments about the often contingent relationship ...

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