Modernity Reimagined offers an explanation of the birth and subsequent proliferation of the many strands in the braid of modernity, teasing those strands apart and using forms of cultural analysis from the social sciences to approach history with fresh eyes. It asks how modernity began and how people conjured into existence the world we now recognize as modern.
Chandra Mukerji is Professor Emeritus in Communication and Science Studies at the University of California, San Diego. She previously won the American Sociological Association’s 2012 Distinguished Book Award for Impossible Engineering: Technology and Territoriality on the Canal du Midi (2009), the Douglas Award for Territorial Ambitions and the Gardens of Versailles (1997), and the Merton Award for A Fragile Power: Scientists and the State (1990). She is also the author of From Graven Images: Patterns of Modern Materialism (1983) and the co-editor, with Michael Schudson, of Rethinking Popular Culture: Contemporary Perspectives in Cultural Studies (1990).
