Machines, Department Stores, and Advertising. The U.S. as a Material Nation between the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries
This article focuses on the concrete and symbolic process of construction, self-identification and self-presentation of U.S.-America as a “material” nation, a self-identification elaborated, albeit seldom by using this term, through the emphasis on its “exceptional” system of production, distributio...
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Language: | English |
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University of Bologna
2013-07-01
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Series: | Scienza & Politica |
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Online Access: | http://scienzaepolitica.unibo.it/article/view/3889 |