Connected : how trains, genes, pineapples, piano keys, and a few disasters transformed Americans at the dawn of the twentieth century /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Cassedy, Steven (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2014]
Subjects:
Table of 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.