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Surfaces: A History
Joseph A. Amato
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Description for Surfaces: A History
Hardback. Human beings are surrounded by surfaces: from our skin to faces, to the walls and streets of our homes and cities, to the images, books, and screens of our cultures and civilizations. This book traces the human relationship with surfaces from the deep history of human evolution, which unfolded across millennia, up to the contemporary world. Num Pages: 312 pages, 25 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: HBG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 163 x 227 x 28. Weight in Grams: 554.
Human beings are surrounded by surfaces: from our skin to faces, to the walls and streets of our homes and cities, to the images, books, and screens of our cultures and civilizations, to the natural world and what we imagine beyond. In this thought-provoking and richly textured book, Joseph A. Amato traces the human relationship with surfaces from the deep history of human evolution, which unfolded across millennia, up to the contemporary world. Fusing his work on "Dust and On Foot", he shows how, in the last two centuries, our understanding, creation, control, and manipulation of surfaces has become truly ... Read more
Human beings are surrounded by surfaces: from our skin to faces, to the walls and streets of our homes and cities, to the images, books, and screens of our cultures and civilizations, to the natural world and what we imagine beyond. In this thought-provoking and richly textured book, Joseph A. Amato traces the human relationship with surfaces from the deep history of human evolution, which unfolded across millennia, up to the contemporary world. Fusing his work on "Dust and On Foot", he shows how, in the last two centuries, our understanding, creation, control, and manipulation of surfaces has become truly ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
312
Condition
New
Number of Pages
312
Place of Publication
Berkerley, United States
ISBN
9780520272774
SKU
V9780520272774
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About Joseph A. Amato
Joseph A. Amato is Emeritus Professor of History at Southwest Minnesota State University. He is the author of Dust (UC Press), On Foot: A History of Walking, Victims and Values: A History and Philosophy of Suffering, Rethinking Home: A Case for Local History (UC Press), and Jacob's Well: A Case for Family History.
Reviews for Surfaces: A History
"Amato's creativity and breadth of analysis ensures Surfaces a prominent place in environmental history... Highly recommended."
J. P. Davis CHOICE "Amato presents a thoughtful and persuasive case about the omnipresent place, role, power and importance of surfaces."
Robert Brusic Practical Thinking
J. P. Davis CHOICE "Amato presents a thoughtful and persuasive case about the omnipresent place, role, power and importance of surfaces."
Robert Brusic Practical Thinking