Shifting Gears: Technology, Literature, Culture in Modernist America

by Cecelia Tichi

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Shifting Gears is a richly illustrated exploration of the American era of gear-and-girder technology. From the 1890s to the 1920s machines and structures shaped by this technology emerged in many forms, from automobiles and harvesting machines to bridges and skyscrapers. The most casual onlooker to American life saw examples of the new technology on Main Street, on the local railway platform, and in the pages of popular magazines.

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Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0807841676

ISBN13:9780807841679

Release Date:April 2009

Publisher:University of North Carolina Press

Length:328 Pages

Weight:1.05 lbs.

Dimensions:0.9" x 7.0" x 10.0"

Related Subjects

American Literature Classics Criticism & Theory History & Criticism Literary Criticism Literary Criticism & Collections Literature Modern (16th-21st Centuries) Modernism Movements & Periods

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