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These days of large things : the culture of size in America, 1865-1930 / Michael Tavel Clarke.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Clarke, Michael Tavel.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Popular culture--United States--History--19th century.
- Popular culture.
- Size perception.
- History.
- United States.
- Popular culture--United States--History--20th century.
- United States--Civilization--1865-1918.
- Civilization.
- United States--Civilization--1918-1945.
- Size perception--United States--History--19th century.
- Size perception--United States--History--20th century.
- Physical Description:
- 326 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2007]
- Contents:
- Part 1 Stature and the Discourses of Race
- Chapter 1 Representing the "Pygmies" 17
- Chapter 2 The Height of Civilization: Science and the Management of Stature 62
- Part 2 Size in the Marketplace
- Chapter 3 A Pygmy between Two Giants: The Economic Body in Popular Literature 101
- Chapter 4 The City of Dreadful Height: Skyscrapers and the Aesthetics of Growth 140
- Part 3 Growing Women, Shrinking Men
- Chapter 5 The Growing Woman and the Growing Jew: Mary Antin, the New Woman, and the Immigration Debate 181
- Chapter 6 The Incredible Industrial Shrinking Man: Upton Sinclair's Challenge to Hegemonic Masculinity 215.
- Notes:
- Based on author's thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Iowa, 2001.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-309) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780472099627
- 0472099620
- OCLC:
- 77116699
- Online:
- Publisher description
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