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The Modernist Enterprise: French Elites and the Threat of Modernity, 1900-1940 Marjorie A. Beale 1st edition
The Modernist Enterprise: French Elites and the Threat of Modernity, 1900-1940
Marjorie A. Beale
This study of French responses to modernity analyzes the elites' attitudes toward a series of challenges to the old order: the establishment of mass democracy, the new role of workers and the middle classes in shaping public opinion, burgeoning technological possibilities, and, most important, the rise of American-style consumer capitalism.
231 pages
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | 2000 |
| ISBN13 | 9780804735117 |
| Publishers | Stanford University Press |
| Pages | 248 |
| Dimensions | 140 × 216 × 30 mm · 467 g |
| Language | English |