Dark Light: Electricity and Anxiety from the Telegraph to the X-Ray by Linda Simon - 2004-07-05

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Used - Very Good. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in excellent condition. May show signs of wear or have minor defects.

Houghton Mifflin, 2004. Hardcover. Good. Former library book; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company, 2004. Hardcover. Very Good. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

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Orlando, Florida, U.S.A.: Harcourt Brace & Company, 2004. First Edition . Hardcover. As New/As New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. This is a First Printing and it is in New condition, unread, square and tight with the dust jacket in a mylar cover and the publisher's relaese notice laid-in.

Orlando: Harcourt, 2004. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 357 pages, index. As new. First printing.

Harcourt, 7/5/2004 12:00:01 AM. hardcover. Very Good. 0.7598 8.5000 5.3386. Signed by the author.

Orlando, Florida, U.S.A.: Harcourt, 2004. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition.

Orlando: Harcourt, Inc.. Fine copy in fine dust jacket. 2004. 1st. hardcover. 8vo, 357 pp. .

Orlando, Florida: Harcourt, Inc, 2004. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 5x1x8. First edition. A near fine copy in a near fine jacket. 2004 Hard Cover. 357 pp. "The modern world imagines that the invention of electricity was greeted with great enthusiasm. But in 1879, Americans reacted to the advent of electrification with suspicion and fear. Forty years after Thomas Edison invented the incandescent bulb, only 20 percent of American families had wired their homes. Meanwhile, electrotherapy emerged as a popular medical treatment for everything from depression to digestive problems. Why did Americans welcome electricity into their bodies even as they kept it from their homes? And what does their reaction to technological innovation then have to teach us about our reaction to it today? In Dark Light, Linda Simon offers the first cultural history that delves into those questions, using newspapers, novels, and other primary sources. Tracing fifty years of technological transformation,… Read More