Popular Modernity in America: Experience, Technology, Mythohistory
- ISBN-10
- 0791447138
- ISBN-13
- 9780791447130
- Category
- Art / General
- Pages
- 237
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2000-09-28
- Publisher
- SUNY Press
- Author
- Michael Thomas Carroll
Description
Examines a wide variety of cultural and technological phenomena that have helped shape American popular culture over the last 150 years.
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- 2000-09-28
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