City of Modernity. Lodz
edited by Katarzyna Badowska, Tomasz Cieslak, Krystyna Pietrych and Krystyna Radziszewska
This volume consists of 33 essays about Lodz, a city that started out as an agricultural settlement and became a metropolis within a single generation, all thanks to technological progress. The authors, representing a variety of fields, analyze many aspects of Lodz’s economic, social and cultural life before the outbreak of World War II.
City of Modernity consists of 33 essays about Lodz, a city that started out as an agricultural settlement and became a metropolis within a single generation, all thanks to technological progress. Its population of 767 in 1820, it had grown to 767,000 by 1939. At the turn of the century, it emblematized modernization and industrialization, and was a symbol of industrial-era modernity. It was often compared to Manchester and its truly American pace of development was admired. The city’s rapid economic career was impressive, but it also exacted a high social cost. The authors, representing a variety of fields (history, sociology, literary, theatre and film studies, cultural anthropology) analyze many aspects of Lodz’s economic, social and cultural life before the outbreak of World War II. In reference to Lodz modernism, they explore notions like modernity, metropolitanism and peripherality, multi-culturalism and multi-ethnicity (Lodz was a labor destination for German settlers, Polish peasants, Jews, as well as newcomers from the Russian interior), the phenomenon of workers’ movements which peaked during the revolution of 1905, and the expansion of mass entertainment. The publication also looks at issues linked to urban infrastructure, animators of cultural life, and the emergence of new religious, political, and emancipation movements.
- Edited by Katarzyna Badowska
- Edited by Tomasz Cieslak
- Edited by Krystyna Pietrych
- Edited by Krystyna Radziszewska
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