Karl Hagstrom Miller, University of Texas, Austin Carey Stumm, Archivist, New York City Transit Museum the late Beth M. Fradkin, author of The Great Earthquake and Firestorms of 1906 Michael Parrish, UCSD Debra Feiger, piano technician, San Diego, Calif. Riley, Indiana University Peter Uhlenberg, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Philip L. Wilk, Assistant Director, Columbia University Archives Steve Laise, Chief of Cultural Resources, Manhattan Sites, National Park Service John Mullarkey, University of Dundee, Scotland Andrew Dolkart, Columbia University James C. Young, Staff Archivist, Kappa Alpha Theta Fraternity Mary Edith Arnold, Kappa Alpha Theta Fraternity Archivist Jocelyn K.

Cudahy, formerly of Department of Transportation Charles Lester, vacuum cleaner historian David Phillips, UCSD Donald Glassman, Wollman Library, Barnard College Noraleen A. Cassedy, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health Brian J. Michael Schudson, University of California, San Diego (UCSD) Howard Pollack, University of Houston Alain J. For that reason, I’ve chosen to use the word Negro throughout, instead of African American. In this book, I’ve made a practice of adhering to word usage that was conventional during the period I’m examining. Religion Goes Worldly, Ecumenical, and Collective Race Goes Scientific, Then Transnationalĩ. Part III: The Secular, Ecumenical CollectiveĨ. The Globalized Consumer Network: From Pineapples to Turkey Red Cigarettes to the Bunny Hug To Push Back the Shadow upon the Dial of Time: The Astonishing New Facts of Life and Deathħ. How Trains, Genes, Pineapples, Piano Keys, and a Few Disasters Transformed Americans at the Dawn of the Twentieth Centuryġ. Typeset at Stanford University Press in 10/14 Minion CONNECTED Includes bibliographical references and index. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication DataĬonnected : how trains, genes, pineapples, piano keys, and a few disasters transformed Americans at the dawn of the twentieth century / Steven Cassedy. Printed in the United States of America on acid-free, archival-quality paper No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system without the prior written permission of Stanford University Press. ©2014 by the Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University. This book shows that American individuals in this era were more connected to their fellow citizens than ever-but by bonds that were distinctly modern. Previous histories of this era focus on alienation and dislocation that new technologies caused. There were social networks that joined individuals to their fellows at the municipal, state, national, and global levels. There was the public health movement, which joined individuals to their fellow citizens by making everyone responsible for the health of everyone else. There was the network of standard time, which bound together all but the most rural Americans. There was the network of the globalized marketplace, which brought into the American home exotic goods previously affordable to only a few. There were transportation and communication networks. Between the end of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth, Americans underwent a dramatic transformation in self-conception: having formerly lived as individuals or members of small communities, they now found themselves living in networks, which arose out of scientific and technological innovations.

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