The rise of popular antimodernism in Germany : the urban master artisans, 1873-1896 /
Shulamit Volkov.
- Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, (c)1978.
- 1 online resource (412 pages).
- Princeton Legacy Library .
Includes bibliographies and index.
Antimodernism, a popular movement growing out of fear and hostility toward an emerging new world, became a central ideological trend in late nineteenth-century Europe. Shulamit Volkov explains its development in Germany by providing a biography of one group-the urban master artisans-whose political attitudes came to be dominated by antimodernist feelings. As small, independently employed practitioners of traditional crafts, the master artisans possessed a special social identity. The author focuses on their character as a group, their public behavior, and the formation of their ideas and po.