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Consumers, tinkerers, rebels : the people who shaped Europe / Ruth Oldenziel, Professor, Eindhoven University of Technology, Mikael Hård, Full Professor of History of Technology, Darmstadt University of Technology.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Oldenziel, Ruth, 1958-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Social history--Europe.
- Social history.
- Europe.
- Physical Description:
- xxi, 415 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.
- Contents:
- List of illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- The nineteenth century : shaping new technologies
- Poaching from paris
- Creating european comfort
- Crossing borders "in style"
- After the great war : who directs technology?
- Bicycling & driving europe
- Eating around the continent
- Living in state-sponsored europe
- Beyond the 1960s : users empowered?
- Saving the nation, saving the earth
- Toying with america, toying with europe
- Conclusion.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Dorothy Mann Yeakel & Paul Herbert Yeakel Memorial Fund.
- ISBN:
- 0230308015
- OCLC:
- 841793729
- Publisher Number:
- 99955504058
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