كتاب
The body electric: how strange machines built the modern American
| العنوان: | The body electric: how strange machines built the modern American |
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| المؤلفون: | Peña, Carolyn Thomas de la. |
| بيانات النشر: | New York : New York University Press, c2003. |
| سنة النشر: | 2003 |
| وصف مادي: | xvi, 329 p. : ill., plan ; 24 cm. |
| سلاسل: | American history and culture American history and culture (New York University Press) |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | History, 19th Century., History, 20th Century., Electric Stimulation Therapy -- history., Electrotherapeutics -- United States -- History -- 20th century., Exercise Therapy -- history., Electrotherapeutics -- United States -- History -- 19th century., Medical instruments and apparatus -- United States -- History -- 20th century., Medical instruments and apparatus -- United States -- History -- 19th century., Quacks and quackery -- United States -- History -- 20th century., Quacks and quackery -- United States -- History -- 19th century., History. |
| الوصف: | "The Body Electric is the first book to place changing ideas about fitness and gender in dialogue with the popular culture of technology. Whether through wearing electric belts, drinking radium water, or lifting mechanized weights, many Americans came to believe that by embracing the nation's rapid march to industrialization, electrification, and "radiomania," their bodies would emerge fully powered. Only by uncovering this belief's passions and products, Thomas de la Pena argues, can we fully understand our culture's twentieth-century energy enthusiasm."--Jacket. |
| ملاحظة حول المحتويات: | The machine-built body -- Measuring mechanical strength -- Exploring electric limits -- Powering the intimate body -- "Radiomania" limits the energy dream -- Conclusion: the end of an era? |
| Original Identifier: | ocm51216523 |
| نوع الوثيقة: | Book |
| اللغة: | English |
| ردمك: | 978-0-8147-1953-4 0-8147-1953-8 |
| حقوق: | This record is part of the Harvard Library Bibliographic Dataset, which is provided by the Harvard Library under its Bibliographic Dataset Use Terms and includes data made available by, among others, OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc. and the Library of Congress. |
| ملاحظات: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 293-319) and index. |
| رقم الأكسشن: | edshlc.009116662.4 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | Harvard Library Bibliographic Dataset |
| ردمك: | 9780814719534 0814719538 |
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