These days of large things : the culture of size in America, 1865-1930 /

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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Clarke, Michael Tavel (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Ann Arbor : The University of Michigan Press, [2007]
Sujets:
1800-1999
Popular culture > United States > History > 19th century.
Popular culture > United States > History > 20th century.
Size perception > United States > History > 19th century.
Size perception > United States > History > 20th century.
Culture populaire > États-Unis > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Culture populaire > États-Unis > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Perception de la taille > États-Unis > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Perception de la taille > États-Unis > Histoire > 20e siècle.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
Civilization
Popular culture
Size perception
Wahrnehmung
Volkskultur
Größe
United States > Civilization > 1865-1918.
United States > Civilization > 1918-1945.
États-Unis > Civilisation > 1865-1918.
États-Unis > Civilisation > 1918-1945.
United States
USA
History
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Table des matières:
  • pt. 1. Stature and the discourses of race
  • Representing the "pygmies"
  • The height of civilization : science and the management of stature
  • pt. 2. Size in the marketplace
  • A pygmy between two giants : the economic body in popular literature
  • The city of dreadful height : skyscrapers and the aesthetics of growth
  • pt. 3. Growing women, shrinking men
  • The growing woman and the growing Jew : Mary Antin, the new woman, and the immigration debate
  • The incredible industrial shrinking man : Upton Sinclair's challenge to hegemonic masculinity
  • Epilogue : Shrinking men and growing women (reprise).

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