Fabricating Modern Societies: Education, Bodies, and Minds in the Age of Steel

Fabricating Modern Societies: Education, Bodies, and Minds in the Age of Steel offers new interdisciplinary and transnational perspectives on industrialization and societal transformation in early-twentieth-century Luxembourg by analyzing social-educational initiatives and various technologies of modernity and their effects.

About the author

Karin Priem is Professor of History of Education and Head of Public History at the Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History (C2DH, University of Luxembourg). Her publications and interdisciplinary research focus on social, cultural-material, economic, and educational history.
Frederik Herman is lecturer at the University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland (PH FHNW). He has published widely on topics such as school culture, materialities of schooling, psychophysiology, vocational training, and cultural learning.

Product details

• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 12.09.2019
• EAN: 9789004344235
• ISBN: 978-90-04-34423-5
• No. of pages: 264
• Dimensions: 162 mm x 241 mm x 20 mm
• Weight: 514 g
• Series: Studies in Global Social Histo
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Social sciences, law, business > Business > Management