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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Main Author: Ferdinando Fasce
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Bologna 2013-07-01
Series:Scienza & Politica
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Online Access:http://scienzaepolitica.unibo.it/article/view/3889