The challenge of modernity [Texte imprimé] : German social and cultural studies, 1890-1960 / Adelheid von Saldern ; translated by Bruce Little ; with a foreword by Geoff Eley

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Machine generated contents note: Introduction: The Challenge of Modernity 1 -- The Dynamics of the Working-Class Movement in Society -- 1. Party Centers and Party Hinterlands: The Trend to Centralization and Hierarchism in the Wilhelminian SPD 33 -- 2. Workers' Parties, Class Identity, and United Action: Experiences, Social Constructs, and Myths in the Weimar Republic 58 -- Social Rationalization and Gender -- 3. "Instead of Cathedrals, Dwelling Machines": -- The Paradoxes of Rationalization under the Banner of Modernity 93 -- 4. "How Should Linoleum Floors Be Cleaned?": -- A Contribution to Alltagsgeschichte and the Social History of the 1920s 115 -- 5. The Social Rationalization of Domestic Life and Housework in Germany and the United States in -- the 1920s 134 -- 6. The Poor and Homeless of Hanover in the Weimar Republic: The World of Gertrude Polley 164 -- 7. "A Sensation Comes to Naught": Gertrude Polley at the Center of a Discourse -- Adelheid von Saldern, Karen Heinze, and Sybille Kuster 182 -- Popular Culture and Politics -- 8. Sports and Public Culture: The Opening Ceremonies of the Hanover Stadium in 1922 215 -- 9. Popular Culture: An Immense Challenge in the Weimar Republic 248 -- 10. "Art for the People": From Cultural Conservatism to Nazi Cultural Policies 299 -- 11. Entertainment, Gender Image, and Cultivating an Audience: Radio in the GDR in the 1950s 348

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