Concrete dreams : the second nature of American progressivism
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- Concrete Dreams: The Second Nature of American Progressivism, examines the many purposes to which Americans put Portland cement concrete over the first half of the twentieth century, making it by century's end the most common human-made material on earth. This study is, like its subject, a conglomerate: it integrates environmental history, the history of technology, social history, the history of labor, and political economy to tell a new narrative of American progressivism that centers on the built environment as a mode of reform politics. Using four case studies—concrete architecture and construction, early automobile highways, and modern dams—this dissertation seeks to reconstruct the history and meaning of early-twentieth-century concrete geographies, and to examine their changed meaning over time. Once a symbol of liberating possibilities, by the 1960s concrete structures became reductive shorthand for domination, either of states over people, or of people over nature.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
|---|---|
| Form | electronic resource; remote; computer; online resource |
| Extent | 1 online resource. |
| Place | California |
| Place | [Stanford, California] |
| Publisher | [Stanford University] |
| Copyright date | 2019; ©2019 |
| Publication date | 2019; 2019 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Author | Lee, Gabriel Francis |
|---|---|
| Degree supervisor | Campbell, James T |
| Degree supervisor | White, Richard, 1947- |
| Thesis advisor | Campbell, James T |
| Thesis advisor | White, Richard, 1947- |
| Thesis advisor | Frank, Zephyr L, 1970- |
| Degree committee member | Frank, Zephyr L, 1970- |
| Associated with | Stanford University, Department of History. |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
|---|---|
| Genre | Text |
Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | Gabriel F. Lee. |
|---|---|
| Note | Submitted to the Department of History. |
| Thesis | Thesis Ph.D. Stanford University 2019. |
| Location | electronic resource |
Access conditions
- Copyright
- © 2019 by Gabriel Francis Lee
- License
- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 3.0 Unported license (CC BY-NC).
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