Description: Body Electric : How Strange Machines Built the Modern American, Hardcover by Pena, Carolyn Thomas De LA, ISBN 0814719538, ISBN-13 9780814719534, Brand New, Free shipping in the US 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 and ill health that plagued Victorian bodies. Licensed and &;quack&; physicians alike promoted machines, electricity, and radium as invigorating cures, veritable &;fountains of youth&; that would infuse the body with energy and push out disease and death. The Body Electric is the first book to place changing ideas about fitness and gender in dialogue with the popular culture of technology. Whether through wearing electric belts, drinking radium water, or lifting mechanized weights, many Americans came to believe that by embracing the nation's rapid march to industrialization, electrification, and &;radiomania,&; their bodies would emerge fully powered. Only by uncovering this belief&;s passions and products, Thomas de la Peña argues, can we fully understand our culture&;s twentieth-century energy enthusiasm.
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Book Title: Body Electric : How Strange Machines Built the Modern American
Number of Pages: 329 Pages
Publication Name: Body Electric : How Strange Machines Built the Modern American
Language: English
Publisher: New York University Press
Subject: Instruments & Supplies, History, United States / General
Publication Year: 2003
Item Height: 0.6 in
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 23.5 Oz
Subject Area: Medical, History
Item Length: 9 in
Author: Carolyn Thomas De La Pena
Series: American History and Culture Ser.
Item Width: 6 in
Format: Hardcover
