[PDF.05br] Aluminum Dreams: The Making of Light Modernity (MIT Press)

Aluminum Dreams: The Making of Light Modernity (MIT Press)

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 | #1177110 in Books |  2014-02-14 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.00 x.75 x6.00l,.0 | File type: PDF | 384 pages

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||1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.| Mimi Sheller's 'Aluminum Dreams'|By Fred Rosenberg|Sheller takes a commonly used metal, aluminum, out of the recy.cling bin, and surprises us with a wealth of information
about its sources, production and uses, and most importantly the sociological and economic influence it brings to bear
on our lives.| || Aluminum Dreams spans the globe in order to explain how one light, bright metal has made the modern age, and has made modernity simultaneously wonderful and terrible. This superb commodity study brilliantly carries forward the legacy of Sidney Mintz's

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. It entered modern homes as packaging, foil, pots and pans and even infiltrated our bodies through food, medicine, and cosmetics. In
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