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Dynamic triad: city, exposition, and museum in industrial society / Miriam R. Levin -- Bringing the future to Earth in Paris / Miriam R. Levin -- From modern Babylon to White City: science, technology and urban change in London, 1870-1914 / Sophie Forgan -- Counterrevolution of progress: a civic culture of modernity in Chicago. 1880-1910 / Robert H. Kargon -- "Damned always to alter, but never to be": Berlin's culture of change around 1900 / Martina Hessler -- Promoting scientific and technological change in Tokyo, 1870-1930: museums, industrial exhibitions, and the city / Morris Low -- CODA / Miriam R. Levin

Introduction: African slaves and the Atlantic: a cultural overview / Catherine Coquery-Vidrovitch -- The end of the British Atlantic slave trade or the beginning of the big slave robbery, 1808-1850 / Christian Cwik -- Peasant or proletarian: emancipation and the struggle for freedom in British Guiana in the shadow of the second slavery / Wazir Mohamed -- The end of the "second slavery" in the Confederate South and the "great brigandage" in southern Italy: a comparative study / Enrico dal Lago -- Puerto Rico: "atlantización" and culture during the "segunda esclavitud" / Javier Laviña -- The second slavery: modernity, mobility, and identity of captives in nineteenth-century Cuba and the Atlantic world / Michael Zeuske -- Commodity frontiers, conjuncture, and crisis: the remaking of the Caribbean sugar industry, 1783-1866 / Dale Tomich -- The aftermath of abolition: distortions of the historical record in Machado di Assis' Counselor Aires' memorial / Luiza Franco Moreira -- The second slavery: modernity in the nineteenth-century South and the Atlantic world / Anthony E. Kaye

Karl Marx's work can be read as a set of complete answers, or as a compelling formulation of timeless problems. Favoring the second interpretation, the following constituent features of modernity are discussed as originally highlighted by Marx: (1) the inherent dynamism of modern society makes expansion & industrialization its main features; (2) modern society is rationalized; (3) modern society is functionalist; (4) science, rather than religion, becomes the basis for the accumulation of knowledge; (5) traditional customs are dismantled & traditional virtues lost while certain values become increasingly universalized; (6) the erosion of the canons of creation & interpretation; & (7) the pluralization of the concepts of "right" & "true." S. Karganovic.

Globalization is used to spatialize modernity in two senses. First, the globalization problematique enunciates that about which the previous temporal notion of modernity was suspiciously silent, that it is spatial, Western, & white. Modernity is not about the spread of ideas, but is fundamentally structural & world systemic. Second, modernity is also spatial in that it happens in cities, especially global cities. Urban & global modernity is that where "all that is solid melts into air." Modernity is no longer in metropolitan but in colonial space, where the solid is melting into air at the greatest speed. The most frantic development of migrant & finance flows takes place in colonial space. The global colonial cities have long ago undergone the sort of class polarization that core global cities have just begun to experience. There is no need for a concept of postmodernity when modernization on a world scale (& global colonial cities) has only been with us in the last quarter century. 47 References. V. Rios

Introduction / Susan Larson and Eva Woods -- Visibly modern Madrid : Mesonero, visual culture, and the apparatus of urban reform / Rebecca Haidt -- Foresight, blindness, or illusion? : women and citizenship in the second series of Galdòs's Episodios nacionales / David R. George, Jr -- Horror, spectacle and nation-formation : historical painting in late-nineteenth-century Spain / Jo Labanyi -- Isidora in the museum / Luis Fernández Cifuentes -- Thresholds of visibility at the borders of Madrid : Benjamin, Gòmez de la Serna, Mesonero / Andrew Bush -- Seeing the dead : manual and mechanical specters in modern Spain, 1893-1939 / Brad Epps -- Santiago Rusiñol's Impresiones de arte in the age of tourism : seeing Andalusia after seeing Paris / Elena Cueto Asín -- Landscape in the photography of Spain / Lee Fontanella -- From engraving to photo : cross-cut technologies in the Spanish illustrated press / Lou Charnon-Deutsch -- Spain's imaging and regional dress : from everyday object to museum piece and tourist attraction / Jesusa Vega -- Observing the city, mediating the mountain : Mirador and the International Exposition of Barcelona / Robert A. Davidson -- Joan Mirò, 1929 : high and low culture in Barcelona and Paris / Félix Fanås -- Stages of modernity : the uneasy symbiosis of the género chico and early cinema in Madrid / Susan Larson -- Visualizing the time-space of otherness : digression and distraction in Spanish silent film / Eva M. Woods -- Modern anxiety and documentary cinema in Republican Spain / Eva M. Woods -- The last look from the b

"This book is written for a generation curious about religion, largely ignorant of what it actually is and confused by signals about it in the modern world. The argument is, therefore, self-explanatory throughout. The first half explains the historic and worldwide phenomenon of religion in its major manifestations. It also discusses problems with religion. The second part focusses on Christianity, showing how it can be professed with intellectual integrity and to personal and social benefit. Whilst the author is critical of some forms of contemporary Christianity, he draws throughout on the Bible and Christian tradition in its reconstruction. Care is given in defining modernity and explaining how Christianity engages with some of life's central concerns and resposibilities. In this the book shows how the Christian understanding of how to live responsibly and to the full remains as vibrant and relevant as it has ever been"--

"Discourses of modernity are abundant. Many distinguished scholars, with diverse intellectual backgrounds, have engaged in a critical reflection on the fundamental deficiencies of Western modernity. What comes out of these confrontations with the Western tradition of enlightenment and modernity, however, is far from being uniform. On the contrary, the proposed solutions are so divergent that one is liable to end up highly confused. For instance, conflicting philosophical positions with labels such as post- colonialism, de- colonialism, post- modernity, late- modernity, second modernity have been proposed, and are busy contesting each other"--