Connected
Subtitle: How Trains, Genes, Pineapples, Piano Keys, and a Few Disasters Transformed Americans at the Dawn of the Twentieth Century
By: Steven Cassedy
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 340
ISBN-13: 9780804788410; 9780804763721
Copyright date: 2014
Subjects: State & Local; History; Civilization; HISTORY; General
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

Online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed December 6, 2013).
Table of contents: title: "To push back the shadow upon the dial of time" : the astonishing new facts of life and death; title: The biological self; title: Sex o'clock in America; title: The neurophysiological mind; Or not; title: The network of spatialized time; title: The networked house and home; title: The globalized consumer network : from pineapples to Turkey Red cigarettes to the bunny hug; title: Race goes scientific, then transnational; title: Religion goes worldly, ecumenical, and collective; title: Citizen, community, state; title: Conclusion : who you are.