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Pages: 221
Authors: David E. Brown
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
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Profiles thirty-five inventors whose various innovations changed life in modern America.
Inventing Modern
Language: en
Pages: 312
Authors: John H. Lienhard
Categories: Technology & Engineering
Type: BOOK - Published: 2003-09-18 - Publisher: Oxford University Press

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Modern is a word much used, but hard to pin down. In Inventing Modern, John H. Lienhard uses that word to capture the furious rush of newness in the first half
Inventing Modern Adolescence
Language: en
Pages: 218
Authors: Sarah E. Chinn
Categories: Family & Relationships
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009 - Publisher: Rutgers University Press

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In Inventing Modern Adolescence Sarah E. Chinn follows the roots of American teenage identity further back, to the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the tw
Inventing the Modern World
Language: en
Pages: 0
Authors: Jason T. Busch
Categories: Decorative arts
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012 - Publisher: Skira

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Published on the occasion of the exhibition Inventing the Modern World: Decorative Arts at the World's Fairs, 1851-1939 held at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art,
Inventing the Modern Artist
Language: en
Pages: 396
Authors: Sarah Burns
Categories: Art
Type: BOOK - Published: 1996-01-01 - Publisher: Yale University Press

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Sarah Burns tells the story of artists in American society during a period of critical transition from Victorian to modern values, examining how culture shaped