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How Trains, Genes, Pineapples, Piano Keys, and a Few Disasters Transformed Americans at the Dawn of the Twentieth Century

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An edition of Connected (2014)

Connected

How Trains, Genes, Pineapples, Piano Keys, and a Few Disasters Transformed Americans at the Dawn of the Twentieth Century

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Between the end of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth, Americans underwent a dramatic transformation in self-conception: having formerly lived as individuals or members of small communities, they now found themselves living in networks, which arose out of scientific and technological innovations. There were transportation and communication networks. There was the network of the globalized marketplace, which brought into the American home exotic goods previously affordable to only a few. There was the network of standard time, which bound together all but the most rural A.

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Subjects
State & Local, History, Civilization, HISTORY, General, United states, civilization, 1865-1918
Places
United States
Times
1865-1918

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Table of Contents

"To push back the shadow upon the dial of time" : the astonishing new facts of life and death
The biological self
Sex o'clock in America
The neurophysiological mind; Or not
The network of spatialized time
The networked house and home
The globalized consumer network : from pineapples to Turkey Red cigarettes to the bunny hug
Race goes scientific, then transnational
Religion goes worldly, ecumenical, and collective
Citizen, community, state
Conclusion : who you are.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed December 6, 2013).

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2014

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973.8
Library of Congress
E169.1 .C37 2014eb, E169.1 .C298 2014, E169

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Pagination
1 online resource (340 pages)
Number of pages
340

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OL26458445M
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connectedhowtrai0000cass
ISBN 10
0804788413, 0804763720
ISBN 13
9780804788410, 9780804763721
LCCN
2013010533
OCLC/WorldCat
868977165, 830992808

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