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

By Steven Cassedy

Book Overview

Between the end of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth, Americans underwent a dramatic transformation: having formerly lived as individuals or members of small communities, they now found themselves living in networks-physical, social, and political-which bound them together in ways never previously imagined.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804763720
• ISBN13: 9780804763721
• Release Date: January 2014
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.2"