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New York The Penguin Press 2013 First Printing [Stated] Hardcover Very good in Very good jacket [14], 354 pages. Frontis. Illustrations. Notes. Index. This is one of the Penguin History of American Life. Ernest Freeberg is an American historian in 19th and 20th-century American culture, currently a Distinguished Humanities Professor and Departmental Chair of History at the University of Tennessee. In 2002, he was awarded the John H. Dunning Prize. Dr. Freeberg's research interests center on the cultural and intellectual history of the United States in the 19th and early 20th century. The Age of Edison, explores the impact of electric light on the development of modern American culture. His Democracy's Prisoner: Eugene V. Debs explores imprisonment of the socialist and the role played in promoting civil liberties in America. Democracy's Prisoner won the Langum Prize in American Legal History and the Oboler Award from the American Library Association's Intellectual Freedom Roundtable. The author begins as the inventor struggles to find a suitable filament for his bulb. Freeberg then takes us on a tour of the electric world as it emerged in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He shows us how light affected many other aspects of American life, including shopping, transportation, leisure, education and medicine. Freeberg also examines how the spread of light across the country came to symbolize not just American inventiveness, but for many, cultural superiority. The author ...

Penguin Press, Date: 2013. 1st Edition . Hardcover. New/New. FIRST Edition AND FIRST Printing with publishers full number line in place. * SIGNED * by author DIRECTLY ONTO THE TITLE PAGE (Signature only). A FLAWLESS / MINT copy in same condition UNclipped dust jacket. An in-depth history, and illustrated with many b/w photographs and drawings. A large section of "Notes" at rear - great reference material. Non-Fiction. Mylar protected jacket. 2013. Penguin Press ISBN 1594204268 9781594204265 [US]

ISBN10: 1594204268, ISBN13: 9781594204265, [publisher: Penguin Press (February 21, 2013)] Hardcover First Edition Signed Copy: First edition first printing. Near fine in ner fine dust jacket. Profusely illustrated This a nice clean copy, the spine is solid, The text is clean and pages are not torn or dirty. We provide fast and reliable shipping service. We started to sell on the internet in 1998. We ship from California. All our books are guaranteed.
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