Abstract
IMAGINE A WORLD WITHOUT RUBBERMAID AND TUPPERWARE, NYLON AND acrylic, or films and compact disks. To do so is to imagine the preplastic world of very different colors, weights, textures, sights, and sounds. Posing just such a challenge to readers, Jeffrey L. Meikle begins his latest big book, American Plastic, a broadly conceived, extensively documented, and truly cross-disciplinary work about the production, distribution, use, and meaning of plastics. Meikle's volume is not only a welcome addition to the literature in American cultural history, but it also fills a giant void in material culture scholarship, where there are too few monographs about everyday products and their makers for the late-nineteenth and twentieth centuries.' A bright, shining star in this particular dark universe, Meikle's American Plastic-which won the 1996 Dexter Prize for the best book on
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