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Autore |
Sheller Mimi |
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Titolo |
Aluminum dreams : the making of light modernity / / Mimi Sheller |
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Cambridge, Massachusetts : , : The MIT Press, , [2014] |
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©2014 |
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ISBN |
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0-262-32137-8 |
0-262-32136-X |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (384 p.) |
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Collana |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Aluminum |
Aluminum industry and trade - Social aspects |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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part I. The bright side -- part II. The dark side. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Aluminum shaped the twentieth century. It enabled high-speed travel and gravity-defying flight. It was the material of a streamlined aesthetic that came to represent modernity. And it became an essential ingredient in industrial and domestic products that ranged from airplanes and cars to designer chairs and artificial Christmas trees. |
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