Using montage - relayering multiple pasts and on-going present - this challenges the obsession with "postmodernity", demanding a deeper, more connective understanding of the pleasures and dangers of the European present.

Acknowledgments, For(e) Montage: Swedish Modern and the Recognition of European Modernities, CHAPTER ONE: Spectacular Articulations of Modernity: The Stockholm Exhibition of 1897, CHAPTER TWO: Pure and Simple Lines, Future Lines of Vision: The Stockholm Exhibition of 1930, CHAPTER THREE: Where in the World Am I, Are We? Who in the World Am I, Are We?: The Glob(e)alization of Stockholm, Sweden, After Montage: Or What?, Bibliography, Index