Aluminum dreams : the making of light modernity / / Mimi Sheller

• Autore: Sheller Mimi
• Pubblicazione: Cambridge, Massachusetts : , : The MIT Press, , [2014]; ©2014
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (384 p.)
• Disciplina: 338.4/7669722
• Soggetto topico: Aluminum; Aluminum industry and trade - Social aspects
• Soggetto non controllato: SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY & SOCIETY/History of Technology; HUMANITIES/History; URBANISM/Transportation
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: part I. The bright side -- part II. The dark side.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Aluminum dreams
• ISBN: 0-262-32137-8; 0-262-32136-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910789016803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Mobility studies