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Shifting Gears: Technology, Literature, Culture in Modernist America
by Tichi, Cecelia
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Near Fine/very good +
- ISBN 10
- 0807817155
- ISBN 13
- 9780807817155
- Seller
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Lansdowne, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1987. Hardcover. Near Fine/very good +. xvi, [2], 310 p.: illustrations; 26 cm. Grey cloth with black spine title. A "richly illustrated exploration of the American era of gear-and-girder technology. From the 1890s to the 1920s machines and structures shaped by this technology emerged in many forms, from automobiles and harvesting machines to bridges and skyscrapers." The author "shows how turn-of-the-century technology pervaded every aspect of American culture and how this culture could be defined as a collaborative effort of the engineer, the architect, the fiction writer, and the poet." -- dust jacket. Book is in Near Fine Condition: top page edges slightly soiled; otherwise, clean and tight. Dust jacket is in Very Good+ Condition: slightly soiled along back fold; otherwise, clean and bright.
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- Bookseller
- Classic Books and Ephemera
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 007922
- Title
- Shifting Gears: Technology, Literature, Culture in Modernist America
- Author
- Tichi, Cecelia
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- very good +
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0807817155
- ISBN 13
- 9780807817155
- Publisher
- University of North Carolina Press
- Place of Publication
- Chapel Hill
- Date Published
- 1987
- Bookseller catalogs
- American History; Science & Technology; History & Politics;
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- Tight
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- Spine
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- Cloth
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- Good+
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- Fine
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- Edges
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- Soiled
- Generally refers to minor discoloration or staining.
- Jacket
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