Title The age of questions : or, a first attempt at an aggregate history of the Eastern, social, woman, American, Jewish, Polish, bullion, tuberculosis, and many other questions over the nineteenth century, and beyond / Holly Case

Published Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2018] ©2018

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Description 1 online resource Contents Introduction -- Prologue: Questions and their predecessors -- The national argument : the imperial to the national age -- The progressive argument : the age of emancipation -- The argument about force : the loaded question of a genocidal age -- The federative argument : the age of erasing borders -- The argument about farce : the farcical age -- The temporal argument : the age of spin -- The suspension-bridge argument : the age of spanning contradictions Summary A groundbreaking history of the Big Questions that dominated the nineteenth centuryIn the early nineteenth century, a new age began: the age of questions. In the Eastern and Belgian questions, as much as in the slavery, worker, social, woman, and Jewish questions, contemporaries saw not interrogatives to be answered but problems to be solved. Alexis de Tocqueville, Victor Hugo, Karl Marx, Frederick Douglass, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Rosa Luxemburg, and Adolf Hitler were among the many who put their pens to the task. The Age of Questions asks how the question form arose, what trajectory it followed, and why it provoked such feverish excitement for over a century. Was there a family resemblance between questions? Have they disappeared, or are they on the rise again in our time?In this pioneering book, Holly Case undertakes a stunningly original analysis, presenting, chapter by chapter, seven distinct arguments and frameworks for understanding the age. She considers whether it was marked by a progressive quest for emancipation (of women, slaves, Jews, laborers, and others); a steady, inexorable march toward genocide and the "Final Solution"; or a movement toward federation and the dissolution of boundaries. Or was it simply a farce, a false frenzy dreamed up by publicists eager to sell subscriptions? As the arguments clash, patterns emerge and sharpen until the age reveals its full and peculiar nature. Turning convention on its head with meticulous and astonishingly broad scholarship, The Age of Questions illuminates how patterns of thinking move history Analysis Adolf Hitler American question Belgian question Eastern question Europe European question Final Solution Hungary Jewish question Palladium Polish question Ukrainian question boundaries bullion question catechisms catharsis conservatives contradictions debating societies deed emancipation farce argument farce federation federative argument final solutions force argument genocide international public sphere literature national argument nationality question philosophy popular pedagogy progressive argument querelle des femmes querism question des femmes questions satire scholastic question science slavery question social question suspension-bridge argument temporal argument time timelessness timeliness universal war woman question x question Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Vendor-supplied metadata SUBJECT Europa gnd Subject History, Modern -- 19th century. Social change -- Europe -- 19th century Civilization, Modern -- European influences. Nationalism -- Europe -- History -- 19th century POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Essays. POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- General. POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- National. POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Reference. HISTORY -- Modern -- 19th Century. Social change Politics and government History, Modern Civilization, Modern -- European influences Nationalism Gesellschaft Politisches Denken Sozialphilosophie SUBJECT Europe -- History -- 1789-1900. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85045705 Europe -- Politics and government. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85045733 Europe, Eastern -- Politics and government -- 19th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh88005184 Subject Europe Eastern Europe Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 9781400890217 1400890217

Other Titles First attempt at an aggregate history of the eastern, social, woman, American, Jewish, Polish, bullion, tuberculosis, and many other questions over the nineteenth century, and beyond

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