Book ID: CBB329533652

Connected: How Trains, Genes, Pineapples, Piano Keys, and a Few Disasters Transformed Americans at the Dawn of the Twentieth Century (2014)

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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.

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Authors & Contributors
Coomons, Thomas
Armando Gervasoni
Shu, Chang-Xue
Per Högselius
Vitiello, Domenic
Gregory, Martin
Concepts
Industrialization
Technology
Mass production
Engineering
Economics
Technology and economics
Time Periods
19th century
20th century
18th century
Early modern
Modern
20th century, early
Places
United States
Philadelphia, PA
Birmingham (England)
Southern states (U.S.)
England
Netherlands
Institutions
Crédit Foncier d'Extrême-Orient (Brüssel)
Institut Pasteur, Paris
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