Item K/PP106/10/11/7 - Texts and notes, c 1965 - c 1990, chiefly on American culture and technology since the mid nineteenth century

Texts by Mottram: 'The persuasive lips: men and guns in America, the West', published in American Studies, c 1975; draft text, 'The metallic necessity and the new American: culture and technology in America, 1850-1900'. Articles by other authors, including 'What the railroads will bring us', by Henry George, from the Cleveland Monthly, 1868, and ‘Big technology and neutral machines’ by Max Learner, from America as a Civilization, 1957. Notes on books, including Popular culture and industrialism, 1865-1890, edited by Henry Nash Smith, 1967; The Californian dream, by Dennis Hale and Jonathan Eisen, 1968.