Download or read book Going Modern and Being British written by Sam Smiles and published by Intellect Books. This book was released on 1998 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume accepts that in the 20th century imagination, Devon has often been portrayed as the antitheses of an urban, technological modernism a place of nostalig retreat from change - yet argues that it has not been isolated from modernism.