[Read and download] The Body Electric: How Strange Machines Built the Modern American (American History and Culture)
✿ Carolyn Thomas de la Pena ✿
| #1732369 in Books | NYU Press | 2005-04-01 | 2005-04-01 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.02 x.78 x5.98l,2.00 | File Name: 081471983X | 329 pages |
||4 of 4 people found the following review helpful.| You'll never look at your StairMaster in quite the same way|By A Customer|Carolyn Thomas de la Pena has written a masterful book. In exploring the ways Americans have used their bodies to understand new technologies, she sheds light on the origins of our own interactions with modern machines. The author supports her findings with meticulously researched facts, and it is clea|||“Transforming archival research into sparkling prose, The Body Electric explains how Americans learned to use machines to seek health, sexual rejuvenation, and physical transformation. This innovative book is both an entertaining history of fads and fo
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 il...
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