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The Portable Radio in American Life (Culture & Technology)
by Michael Brian Schiffer
Product Group: Book
Publisher: University of Arizona Press (1991-11-01)
ISBN: 0816512590
EAN: 9780816512591
Dewy Decimal #: 302.234473
Hardcover: 259 pages
Condition: New
Comments: 1991, 8.5 x 11, 260 pages, Hardcover with dustjacket in protected mylar cover (removable). Book & Dustjacket are in Unused Condition. Book is completely intact with inside pages in Excellent Condition with no tears and with no notations (no pencil marks, no underlining, no highlighting, etc.) Fast Service. Books well packed.
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Editorial Reviews
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Product Description
As an artifact of culture, the portable radio is an unusual but perfect subject for investigation by archaeologist Schiffer. Seeing the history of everyday objects as the history of the life of a people, he shows how the portable radio has reflected changes in American society as surely as clay pots have for ancient cultures.
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Customer Reviews
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Extraordinary, nuanced, complex history of the commonplace.
Rating  (5)
Date: 1998-10-08
3 out of 3 customers found this reveiw helpful
Elegant and well-written, this is one of the few books to take a realistic look at American popular cultural technology. Historians and archaeologists coupld learn a lot from this case study.
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