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Author Cassedy, Steven.

Title Connected : How Trains, Genes, Pineapples, Piano Keys, and a Few Disasters Transformed Americans at the Dawn of the Twentieth Century / Steven Cassedy.

Publication Info. Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2014]
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Description 1 online resource (340 pages)
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Note Online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed December 6, 2013).
Contents "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.
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.
Subject United States -- History.
United States -- Civilization -- 1865-1918.
HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- General.
Civilization. (OCoLC)fst00862898
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Chronological Term 1865-1918
Genre/Form History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Cassedy, Steven. Connected. Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2014] 9780804763721 (DLC) 2013010533 (OCoLC)830992808
ISBN 9780804788410 (electronic bk.)
0804788413 (electronic bk.)
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