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9%OFFCarolyn Thomas de La Pena - The Body Electric: How Strange Machines Built the Modern American (American History and Culture) - 9780814719831 - V9780814719831
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The Body Electric: How Strange Machines Built the Modern American (American History and Culture)

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Description for The Body Electric: How Strange Machines Built the Modern American (American History and Culture) Paperback. Between the years 1850 and 1950, Americans became the leading energy consumers on the planet, expending tremendous physical resources on energy exploration, mental resources on energy exploitation, and monetary resources on energy acquisition. This book includes changing ideas about fitness and gender in dialogue with the culture of technology. Series: American History and Culture Series. Num Pages: 329 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFC; MBG; PDR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 224 x 168 x 21. Weight in Grams: 517.

Between the years 1850 and 1950, Americans became the leading energy consumers on the planet, expending tremendous physical resources on energy exploration, mental resources on energy exploitation, and monetary resources on energy acquisition. A unique combination of pseudoscientific theories of health and the public’s rudimentary understanding of energy created an age in which sources of industrial power seemed capable of curing the physical limitations and ill health that plagued Victorian bodies. Licensed and “quack” physicians alike promoted machines, electricity, and radium as invigorating cures, veritable “fountains of youth” that would infuse the body with energy and push out disease and ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
NYU Press
Condition
New
Series
American History and Culture Series
Number of Pages
329
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780814719831
SKU
V9780814719831
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-50

About Carolyn Thomas de La Pena
Carolyn Thomas de la Peña is Assistant Professor of American Studies at the University of California at Davis.

Reviews for The Body Electric: How Strange Machines Built the Modern American (American History and Culture)
The Body Electric is the so-far missing puzzle piece in our nineteenth-twentieth century knowledge of the social history of the human body and technologya richly illustrated study showing two centuries of technologizing the human body against fears of weakness, enervation, sexual depletion.
Cecelia Tichi,author of Shifting Gears: Technology, Literature, Culture in Modernist America This provocative exploration of the concept ... Read more

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