Peter H. Christensen is Associate Professor of Art History at the University of Rochester. He is the author of the award-winning Germany and the Ottoman Railways: Art, Empire, and Infrastructure.
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Description
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Note on Translation and Format
Introduction
1. Origin
2. Industry
3. Production
4. Dissemination
5. Building
6. Return
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index
“Precious Metal draws on scholarship and archives from industrial, architectural, and political discussions to offer a novel reading of an essential phenomenon—the role of material and infrastructure in determining the contours of life. The book is well integrated into a number of familiar and emergent literatures: on architecture and design, material histories, anthropologies of design and environment, and analyses of technospheres and territories.”—Daniel A. Barber, author of Modern Architecture and Climate: Design Before Air Conditioning
“Precious Metal tells a very engaging tale with broad implications across a number of disciplines, including environmental history, architectural history, German history and culture, and geography. It is likely to serve as a key text across many disciplines and at all levels of a university curriculum.”—Kathleen James-Chakraborty, author of Modernism as Memory: Building Identity in the Federal Republic of Germany