These days of large things the culture of size in America, 1865-1930 - Clarke, Michael Tavel (University of Michigan Press, 2007)
Based on the author's thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Iowa, 2001. - Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002
Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-309) and index
pt. 1. Stature and the discourses of race -- Representing the "pygmies" -- The height of civilization : science and the management of stature -- pt. 2. Size in the marketplace -- A pygmy between two giants : the economic body in popular literature -- The city of dreadful height : skyscrapers and the aesthetics of growth -- pt. 3. Growing women, shrinking men -- The growing woman and the growing Jew : Mary Antin, the new woman, and the immigration debate -- The incredible industrial shrinking man : Upton Sinclair's challenge to hegemonic masculinity -- Epilogue : Shrinking men and growing women (reprise)