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BL
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706706
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b528895
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| Main Entry
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Clarke, Michael Tavel
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| Title & Author
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These days of large things : : the culture of size in America, 1865-1930 /\ Michael Tavel Clarke
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| Publication Statement
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Ann Arbor :: University of Michigan Press,, c2007
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326 p. :: ill. ;; 25 cm
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| ISBN
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0472099620 (cloth : alk. paper)
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: 9780472099627 (cloth : alk. paper)
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| Notes
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Based on author's thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Iowa, 2001
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| Bibliographies/Indexes
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 253-309) and index
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| Contents
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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)
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Popular culture-- United States-- History-- 19th century
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Popular culture-- United States-- History-- 20th century
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Size perception-- United States-- History-- 19th century
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Size perception-- United States-- History-- 20th century
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United States, Civilization, 1865-1918
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United States, Civilization, 1918-1945
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| LC Classification
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E169.1.C546 2007
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