Untimely ruins: an archaeology of American urban modernity, 1819-1919
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1. Verfasser: Yablon, Nick (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Chicago University of Chicago Press 2009
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Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references (pages 295-362) and index
Introduction: Of light bulbs and bathtubs: excavating the modern city -- Crumbling columns and day-old ruins: specters of antiquity on the American grand tour, 1819-1837 -- "Even Eden, you know, ain't all built": paper cities, British investors, and the ruins of Cairo, Illinois, 1837-1844 -- The petrified city: antiquity and modernity in Melville's New York, 1835-1865 -- Relapsing into barbarism: labor, ethnicity, and ruin in prospective histories of urban America, 1865-1906 -- "Plagued by their own inventions": reframing the technological ruins of San Francisco, 1906-1909 -- The metropolitan life in ruins: architectural and fictional speculations in New York, 1893-1919 -- Epilogue: Toward the posthuman ruin
This is an extended meditation on the meanings of American ruins which explains why they are distinctive, what they reveal, and how they matter
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 380 pages)
ISBN:0226946657
9780226946658

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