Inventing modern : growing up with x-rays, skyscrapers, and tailfins /

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Modern is a word much used, but hard to pin down. In Inventing Modern, John H. Lienhard uses that word to capture the furious rush of newness in the first half of 20th-century America. An unexpected world emerges from under the more familiar Modern. Beyond the airplanes, radios, art deco, skyscraper...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Lienhard, John H., 1930-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Oxford University Press, 2003.
Colección:OUP E-Books.
Temas:
Lienhard, John H., > 1930- > Childhood and youth.
Lienhard, John H., > 1930-
1900-1999
Technological innovations > Social aspects > United States > History > 20th century.
Technology > Social aspects > United States > History > 20th century.
Science > Social aspects > United States > History > 20th century.
Material culture > Social aspects > United States > History > 20th century.
Innovations > Aspect social > États-Unis > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Sciences > Aspect social > États-Unis > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Culture matérielle > Aspect social > États-Unis > Histoire > 20e siècle.
SCIENCE > Philosophy & Social Aspects.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Social Aspects.
Childhood and youth of a person
Civilization
Material culture > Social aspects
Science > Social aspects
Technological innovations > Social aspects
Technology > Social aspects
United States > Civilization > 20th century.
États-Unis > Civilisation > 20e siècle.
United States
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1846 : great-grandpa and manifest destiny
  • Short-lived technologies : searching for direction
  • "The irruption of forces totally new"
  • A new genus of genius
  • Remington to modern : finding the core on the fringe
  • Fires and the high-rise Phoenix
  • The titan city
  • Automobile
  • On the road : of highways and gasoline
  • The back door into the sky
  • Flying down to Rio
  • A boy's life in the new century
  • Inventing a better mousetrap
  • War
  • A funeral in the fifties
  • After modern.

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