Ebook From Cotton and Smoke: Łódź - Industrial City and Discourses of Asynchronous Modernity 1897-1994 Agata Zysiak, Kamil Śmiechowski, Kamil Piskała, Wiktor Marzec, Kaja Kaźmierska, Jacek Burski

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Acknowledgments 9
List of Tables 11
List of Illustrations 13

Agata Zysiak, Kamil Śmiechowski, Kaja Kaźmierska, Wiktor Marzec, Introduction 17
There Is a City in Europe 19
Translocal Modernity 21
Printed Modernity 24
Journey through a Century 27
The Structure and Content of the Modern Discourse 31

Agata Zysiak, Kamil Śmiechowski, Wiktor Marzec, The Beginnings: Entrance to the Industrial World 1897–1914 37
The Promised Land in the Mud 37
From Othering to Condemnation 45
Re-imaging the City 52
Harmonious Modernity and Urban Self-assertion 56
The Dream of a Proper Infrastructure 62
Calling for Institutions 66
Inventing Welfare 73
Educating the Masses 82
Envisioning Urban Citizenship 84
Ethnicizing the Economy 88
Forging Modernity – Conclusion 98

Kamil Piskała, The Interwar: Democratic Politics and Modern City between Two World Wars 1918–1923 101
The Decline of the “Polish Manchester” 101
The Years of War: the Economic Collapse and Political Liberalization 102
Democratic Politics and the Press in the Independent State 106
From Class Warfare to the Modernization Program 110
The Visions of a Metropolis and Municipal Socialism 118
Rhetorical Shifts 121
Against the “Philosophy of the Crowd” 128
National Capitalism 132
Antisemitism as a Social Critique 135
From Antisemitism to Political Mobilization 145
Class or Nation? 149
The Crisis of Modernization and European Civil War – Conclusion 153

Agata Zysiak, Kamil Piskała, The Postwar: Social Justice for the Proletarian City? 1945–1949 161
New Reality 161
New Worldwide Order 162
Postwar Cinderella 165
New Scope of Press Influence 170
Tempting Visions in Hard Times 176
Rhetoric of Appeasement 180
Patterns of Legitimization: Dark Past and Bright Future 184
Working Classes and Everyday Life 187
Towards a Functionalist City 192
Osiedle and beyond 195
Planning 200
Metropolitan Dreams and a Wake-up Call 206
From Modest Modernization to Socialist City – Conclusion 212

Kamil Śmiechowski, Jacek Burski, Transition: The Postindustrial Orphan in Neoliberal Poland 1989–1994 217
Re-inventing the City 217
The Socialist-Style American Dream 219
Shock and Helplessness 227
New Press and New Politics 232
The Market as a Principle of Social Organization 239
City in Crisis 242
Projects of Breaking Through 246
Bringing Capitalism back in – Conclusion 253

Agata Zysiak, Kaja Kaźmierska, Wiktor Marzec, A City Lost in Space in a Country Lost in Time – Conclusion 257
Struggling with the Modern Challenge 257
City from Cotton and Smoke 261
The Press is Back in Town 264
Narratives of Modernity 266

Methodological Appendix 271
Primary Sources Covered 275
Reference list 277
Index of Names 299
List of Contributors 307

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