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The Body Electric : How Strange Machines Built the Modern American.
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 hea...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
NYU Press,
2003.
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| Colección: | American history and culture.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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 invigoratin. |
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| Notas: | Delapena_0814719538_frnt; 0814719538_pod.pdf. |
| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (348 pages). |
| ISBN: | 9780814785492 0814785492 |