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<p>Social theories of modernity focus on the nineteenth century as the period when Western Europe was transformed by urbanization. Cities became thriving metropolitan centers as a result of economic, political, and social changes wrought by the industrial revolution. In <i>Cultural Capitals</i>, Karen Newman demonstrates that speculation and capital, the commodity, the crowd, traffic, and the street, often thought to be historically specific to nineteenth-century urban culture, were in fact alre
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- Author
- Karen Newman
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Published
- 2021
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780691127545
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- Literary Criticism, Mathematics, Science
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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