The Strange History of the Decade: Modernity, Nostalgia, and the Perils of Periodization

1998/12/01 by J. S. Smith, Jennifer S. Smith
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paper · doi:10.1353/jsh/32.2.263

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Abstract

Jason Scott Smith; The Strange History of the Decade: Modernity, Nostalgia, and the Perils of Periodization, Journal of Social History, Volume 32, Issue 2, 1 De

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