The Rise of Popular Antimodernism in Germany: The Urban Master Artisans, 1873-1896Antimodernism, a popular movement growing out of fear and hostility toward an emerging new world, became a central ideological trend in late nineteenth century Europe. Shulamit Volkov explains its development in Germany by providing a biography of one group the urban master artisans whose political attitudes came to be dominated by antimodernist feelings. As small, independently employed practitioners of traditional crafts, the master artisans