Aluminum Dreams: The Making of Light Modernity

by Mimi Sheller

How aluminum enabled a high-speed, gravity-defying American modernity even as other parts of the world paid the price in environmental damage and political turmoil.

Aluminum shaped the twentieth century. It enabled high-speed travel and gravity-defying flight. It was the material of a streamlined aesthetic that came to represent modernity. And it became an essential ingredient in industrial and domestic products that ranged from airplanes...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262026821
• ISBN13: 9780262026826
• Release Date: February 2014
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.92 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.2" x 9.4"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher