The Culture of Time and Space, 1880–1918: With a New PrefaceStephen Kern writes about the sweeping changes in technology and culture between 1880 and World War I that created new modes of understanding and experiencing time and space. To mark the book’s twentieth anniversary, Kern provides an illuminating new preface about the breakthrough in interpretive approach that has made this a seminal work in interdisciplinary studies. |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
The Nature of Time | 10 |
The Past | 36 |
The Present | 65 |
The Future | 89 |
Speed | 109 |
The Nature of Space | 131 |
Form | 181 |
Distance | 211 |
Direction | 241 |
Temporality of | 259 |
The Cubist War | 287 |
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Common terms and phrases
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References to this book
The Condition of Postmodernity: An Enquiry into the Origins of Cultural Change David Harvey No preview available - 1992 |
Globalization: Social Theory and Global Culture Professor Roland Robertson No preview available - 1992 |