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Urban Modernity: Cultural Innovation in the Second Industrial Revolution (The MIT Press) (Updated Edition) by Miriam R. Levin, Sophie Forgan, Robert H. Kargon, Morris Low, Martina Hessler, Martina Hesler, Martina Healer Hardcover, 288 Pages, Published 2010 ISBN-10: 0-262-01398-3 / 0262013983 ISBN-13: 978-0-262-01398-7 / 9780262013987 At the close of the nineteenth century, industrialization and urbanization marked the end of the traditional understanding of society as rooted in agriculture. Urban Modernity examines the construction of an urban-centered, industrial-based culture--an |