Main entry:

Cassedy, Steven, author.

Title & Author:

Connected : how trains, genes, pineapples, piano keys, and a few disasters transformed Americans at the dawn of the Twentieth Century / Steven Cassedy.

Publication:

Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2014.

Description:

xx, 319 pages ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-304) and index.
"To push back the shadow upon the dial of time" : the astonishing new facts of life and death -- The biological self -- Sex o'clock in America -- The neurophysiological mind; Or not -- The network of spatialized time -- The networked house and home -- The globalized consumer network : from pineapples to Turkey Red cigarettes to the bunny hug -- Race goes scientific, then transnational -- Religion goes worldly, ecumenical, and collective -- Citizen, community, state -- Conclusion : who you are.
Dust jacket.

Summary:

Between the end of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth, Americans underwent a dramatic transformation in self-conception: having formerly lived as individuals or members of small communities, they now found themselves living in networks, which arose out of scientific and technological innovations. There were transportation and communication networks. There was the network of the globalized marketplace, which brought into the American home exotic goods previously affordable to only a few. There was the network of standard time, which bound together all but the most rural A.

ISBN:

9780804763721 (cloth ; alk. paper)
0804763720 (cloth ; alk. paper)
(electronic)
9780804788410
9780804795241
080479524X

Subject:

Technology history
Inventions history
Social Change history
Civilization.
Förenta Staterna historia 1870-1914.
United States Civilization 1865-1918.
United States
Förenta Staterna historia 1865-1918.
États-Unis Civilisation 1865-1918.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 285454
Call No.: BIB 225008
Status: Available