Aluminum dreams : the making of light modernity / Mimi Sheller.

Main entry:

Sheller, Mimi.

Title & Author:

Aluminum dreams : the making of light modernity / Mimi Sheller.

Publication:

Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2014]

Description:

xii, 367 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm.

Series:

Mobility studies

Restrictions:

Restricted to subscribers or individual electronic text purchasers.

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction : mobilizing modernity -- Inventors, investors, and industry -- Metal of war, for war, and by war -- Speed metal -- Mobile homes -- Alcoa cruising the Caribbean -- Dark dreams : from Russia, India, and Guinea -- Frozen electricity : saving Iceland -- Aluminum renaissance -- Conclusion : slow metal.
English.

Summary:

Aluminum shaped the twentieth century. It enabled high-speed travel and gravity-defying flight. It was the material of a streamlined aesthetic that came to represent modernity. And it became an essential ingredient in industrial and domestic products that ranged from airplanes and cars to designer chairs and artificial Christmas trees.

ISBN:

9780262026826 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
0262026821 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
(electronic bk.)
9780262321358
9780262321365 (electronic bk.)
026232136X (electronic bk.)

Subject:

Aluminium Company of America
Aluminum.
Aluminum industry and trade Social aspects.
Aluminium.
Aluminium Industrie Aspect social.
aluminum (metal)
Aluminiumindustrie
Aluminiumhandel
Alumini.
Alumini Indústria i comerç

Added entries:

Mobility studies.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 285951
Call No.: BIB 225966
Status: Available

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