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Body Electric

How Strange Machines Built the Modern American

Autor: Carolyn Thomas de la Pena
Jazyk: Angličtina
Väzba: Brožovaná
Vydavateľ: NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
Dostupnosť: Skladom u dodávateľa
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40.79 €
Between the years 1850 and 1950, Americans became the leading energy consumers on the planet, expend...

Informácie o knihe

Autor
Carolyn Thomas de la Pena
Jazyk
Angličtina
Väzba
Kniha - Brožovaná
Vydalo
2005
Stránok
329
EAN
9780814719831
ISBN
081471983X
Enbook ID
04931032
Vydavateľ
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
Hmotnosť
536
Rozmery
232 x 156 x 23

Kompletný popis

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 death. The Body Electric is the first book to place changing ideas about fitness and gender in dialogue with the popular culture of technology. Whether through wearing electric belts, drinking radium water, or lifting mechanized weights, many Americans came to believe that by embracing the nation's rapid march to industrialization, electrification, and "radiomania," their bodies would emerge fully powered. Only by uncovering this belief's passions and products, Thomas de la Pena argues, can we fully understand our culture's twentieth-century energy enthusiasm.

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