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100 1 a| Sheller, Mimie| author.=| ^A476605;

245 10 a| Aluminum dreams :b| the making of light modernity /c| Mimi Sheller.;

264 1 a| Cambridge, Massachusetts :b| The MIT Press,c| [2014];

300 a| xii, 367 pages :b| color illustrations ;c| 23 cm.;

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338 a| volume2| rdacarrier;

490 0 a| Mobility studies;

504 a| Includes bibliographical references and index.;

520 a| 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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Aluminum dreams : the making of light modernity / Mimi Sheller.

Author/creator	Sheller, Mimi author.
Format	Book
Publication	Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2014]
Copyright Date	©2014
Description	xii, 367 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm.
Subjects	Aluminum. Aluminum industry and trade--Social aspects.

Series	Mobility studies
Contents	Introduction : mobilizing modernity -- Inventors, investors, and industry -- Metal of war, for war, and by war -- Speed metal -- Mobile homes -- Alcoa cruising the Caribbean -- Dark dreams : from Russia, India, and Guinea -- Frozen electricity : saving Iceland -- Aluminum renaissance -- Conclusion : slow metal.
Abstract	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.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN	2013021936
ISBN	9780262026826 (hardcover : alk. paper)
ISBN	0262026821 (hardcover : alk. paper)

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

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