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Category : Milk trade
Languages : en
Pages : 66
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Sheffield Sealect News
Author: News from the School of the Jewish Woman
Author: Sales Management
Author: Tramway and Railway World
Author: Yale Alumni Weekly
Author: New Hampshire Health News
Author: Consumers Union Reports
Author: Consumers Union of United StatesPublisher:
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Category : Commercial products
Languages : en
Pages : 324
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Motor Truck News
Author: American Sunshine
Author: Daniel FreundPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226262812
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
In the second half of the nineteenth century, American cities began to go dark. Hulking new buildings overspread blocks, pollution obscured the skies, and glass and smog screened out the health-giving rays of the sun. Doctors fed anxities about these new conditions with claims about a rising tide of the "diseases of darkness," especially rickets and tuberculosis. In American Sunshine, Daniel Freund tracks the obsession with sunlight from those bleak days into the twentieth century. Before long, social reformers, medical professionals, scientists, and a growing nudist movement proffered remedies for America’s new dark age. Architects, city planners, and politicians made access to sunlight central to public housing and public health. and entrepreneurs, dairymen, and tourism boosters transformed the pursuit of sunlight and its effects into a commodity. Within this historical context, Freund sheds light on important questions about the commodification of health and nature and makes an original contribution to the histories of cities, consumerism, the environment, and medicine.
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