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The Human Motor: Energy, Fatigue, and the Origins of Modernity
The Human Motor Energy Fatigue and the Origins of Modernity
Author: Anson Rabinbach
Science once had an unshakable faith in its ability to bring the forces of natureeven human natureunder control. In this wide-ranging book Anson Rabinbach examines how developments in physics, biology, medicine, psychology, politics, and art employed the metaphor of the working body as a human motor. From nineteenth-century theories of therm...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780465031306
ISBN-10: 0465031307
Publication Date: 11/1990
Pages: 402
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Publisher: Basic Books
Book Type: Hardcover
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