The Body Electric: How Strange Machines Built the Modern American

by Carolyn Thomas de la Peña

Book Overview

Between the years 1850 and 1950, Americans became the leading energy consumers on the planet, expending tremendous physical resources on energy exploration, mental resources on energy exploitation, and monetary resources on energy acquisition. A unique combination of pseudoscientific theories of health and the public's rudimentary understanding of energy created an age in which sources of industrial power seemed capable of curing the physical limitations...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 081471983X
• ISBN13: 9780814719831
• Release Date: April 2005
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Length: 329 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.6" x 8.8"