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34 produkter
Cute and the Cool
Wondrous Innocence and Modern American Children's Culture
Av Gary Cross
E-bok, 2004
869 kr
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The twentieth century was, by any reckoning, the age of the child in America. Today, we pay homage at the altar of childhood, heaping endless goods on the young, reveling in memories of a more innocent time, and finding solace in the softly backlit memories of our earliest years. We are, the …
The Cute and the Cool
Wondrous Innocence and Modern American Children's Culture
Av Gary Cross
Inbunden, 2004
1375 kr
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The cute child -- spunky, yet dependent, naughty but nice -- is largely a 20th-century invention. In this book, Gary Cross examines how that look emerged in American popular culture and how the cute turned into the cool, seemingly its opposite, in stories and games. Cross shows how adults have …
Cute and the Cool
Wondrous Innocence and Modern American Children''s Culture
Av Gary Cross
E-bok, 2004
869 kr
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The twentieth century was, by any reckoning, the age of the child in America. Today, we pay homage at the altar of childhood, heaping endless goods on the young, reveling in memories of a more innocent time, and finding solace in the softly backlit memories of our earliest years. We are, the …
All-Consuming Century
Why Commercialism Won in Modern America
Av Gary Cross
Inbunden, 2000
2293 kr
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The unqualified victory of consumerism in America was not a foregone conclusion. The United States has traditionally been the home of the most aggressive and often thoughtful criticism of consumption, including Puritanism, Prohibition, the simplicity movement, the '60s hippies, and the consumer …
All-Consuming Century
Why Commercialism Won in Modern America
Av Gary Cross
Häftad, 2002
317 kr
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The unqualified victory of consumerism in America was not a foregone conclusion. The United States has traditionally been the home of the most aggressive and often thoughtful criticism of consumption, including Puritanism, Prohibition, the simplicity movement, the '60s hippies, and the consumer …
Playful Crowd
Pleasure Places in the Twentieth Century
Inbunden, 2005
702 kr
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During the first part of the twentieth century thousands of working-class New Yorkers flocked to Coney Island in search of a release from their workaday lives and the values of bourgeois society. On the other side of the Atlantic, British workers headed off to the beach resort of Blackpool for …
Men to Boys
The Making of Modern Immaturity
Av Gary Cross
Inbunden, 2008
1209 kr
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Adam Sandler movies, HBO's Entourage, and such magazines as Maxim and FHM all trade in and appeal to one character--the modern boy-man. Addicted to video games, comic books, extreme sports, and dressing down, the boy-man would rather devote an afternoon to Grand Theft Auto than plan his next career …
Men to Boys
The Making of Modern Immaturity
Av Gary Cross
Häftad, 2010
308 kr
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Adam Sandler movies, HBO's Entourage, and such magazines as Maxim and FHM all trade in and appeal to one character--the modern boy-man. Addicted to video games, comic books, extreme sports, and dressing down, the boy-man would rather devote an afternoon to Grand Theft Auto than plan his next career …
Consumed Nostalgia
Memory in the Age of Fast Capitalism
Av Gary Cross
Inbunden, 2015
1068 kr
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Nostalgia isn't what it used to be. For many of us, modern memory is shaped less by a longing for the social customs and practices of the past or for family heirlooms handed down over generations and more by childhood encounters with ephemeral commercial goods and fleeting media moments in our age …
Consumed Nostalgia
Memory in the Age of Fast Capitalism
Av Gary Cross
Häftad, 2017
557 kr
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Nostalgia isn't what it used to be. For many of us, modern memory is shaped less by a longing for the social customs and practices of the past or for family heirlooms handed down over generations and more by childhood encounters with ephemeral commercial goods and fleeting media moments in our age …
All-Consuming Century
Why Commercialism Won in Modern America
Av Gary Cross
E-bok, 2000
478 kr
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The unqualified victory of consumerism in America was not a foregone conclusion. The United States has traditionally been the home of the most aggressive and often thoughtful criticism of consumption, including Puritanism, Prohibition, the simplicity movement, the ''60s hippies, and the consumer …
Playful Crowd
Pleasure Places in the Twentieth Century
E-bok, 2005
1023 kr
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During the first part of the twentieth century thousands of working-class New Yorkers flocked to Coney Island in search of a release from their workaday lives and the values of bourgeois society. On the other side of the Atlantic, British workers headed off to the beach resort of Blackpool for …
Men to Boys
The Making of Modern Immaturity
Av Gary Cross
E-bok, 2008
464 kr
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Adam Sandler movies, HBO''s Entourage , and such magazines as Maxim and FHM all trade in and appeal to one characterthe modern boy-man. Addicted to video games, comic books, extreme sports, and dressing down, the boy-man would rather devote an afternoon to Grand Theft Auto than plan his next …
Worktowners at Blackpool
Mass-Observation and Popular Leisure in the 1930s
Av Gary Cross
Inbunden, 1990
2504 kr
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Gary Cross publishes the findings of this largely forgotten study by the Mass-Observers who followed the annual pilgrimage of labourers to Blackpool, hoping to discover what attracted workers to this centre of Victorian culture.
Worktowners at Blackpool
Mass-Observation and Popular Leisure in the 1930s
Av Gary Cross
Häftad, 2014
747 kr
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Gary Cross publishes the findings of this largely forgotten study by the Mass-Observers who followed the annual pilgrimage of labourers to Blackpool, hoping to discover what attracted workers to this centre of Victorian culture.
Quest for Time
The Reduction of Work in Britain and France, 1840-1940
Av Gary Cross
Häftad, 1989
632 kr
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A Quest for Time: The Reduction of Work in Britain and France, 1840-1940 provides a compelling historical analysis of the struggle for shorter working hours as a crucial aspect of labor movements in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The book challenges conventional labor historiography by …
Quest for Time
The Reduction of Work in Britain and France, 1840-1940
Av Gary Cross
E-bok, 1989
437 kr
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This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed …
Quest for Time
The Reduction of Work in Britain and France, 1840-1940
Av Gary Cross
Inbunden, 1989
1190 kr
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A Quest for Time: The Reduction of Work in Britain and France, 1840-1940 provides a compelling historical analysis of the struggle for shorter working hours as a crucial aspect of labor movements in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The book challenges conventional labor historiography by …
Kids' Stuff
Toys and the Changing World of American Childhood
Av Gary Cross
Häftad, 1999
430 kr
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To sort out who's who and what's what in the enchanting, vexing world of Barbies® and Ninja Turtles®, Tinkertoys® and teddy bears, is to begin to see what's become of childhood in America. It is this changing world, and what it unveils about our values, that Gary Cross explores in Kids' Stuff, a …
Worktowners at Blackpool
Mass-Observation and Popular Leisure in the 1930s
Av Gary Cross
E-bok, 2005
910 kr
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Gary Cross publishes the findings of this largely forgotten study by the Mass-Observers who followed the annual pilgrimage of labourers to Blackpool, hoping to discover what attracted workers to this centre of Victorian culture.
Worktowners at Blackpool
Mass-Observation and Popular Leisure in the 1930s
Av Gary Cross
E-bok, 2005
910 kr
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Gary Cross publishes the findings of this largely forgotten study by the Mass-Observers who followed the annual pilgrimage of labourers to Blackpool, hoping to discover what attracted workers to this centre of Victorian culture.
Technology and American Society
A History
Inbunden, 2018
2332 kr
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Providing a global perspective on the development of American technology, Technology and American Society offers a historical narrative detailing major technological transformations over the last three centuries. With coverage devoted to both dramatic breakthroughs and incremental innovations, …
Technology and American Society
A History
Häftad, 2018
1012 kr
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Providing a global perspective on the development of American technology, Technology and American Society offers a historical narrative detailing major technological transformations over the last three centuries. With coverage devoted to both dramatic breakthroughs and incremental innovations, …
Technology and American Society
A History
E-bok, 2018
1119 kr
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Providing a global perspective on the development of American technology, Technology and American Society offers a historical narrative detailing major technological transformations over the last three centuries. With coverage devoted to both dramatic breakthroughs and incremental innovations, …
Technology and American Society
A History
E-bok, 2018
1169 kr
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Providing a global perspective on the development of American technology, Technology and American Society offers a historical narrative detailing major technological transformations over the last three centuries. With coverage devoted to both dramatic breakthroughs and incremental innovations, …
Exploring the Way of Epictetus
His destination, directions and strategies
Av Gary Cross
Häftad, 2014
150 kr
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Adventures of Major John Tiltborough
Book One
Av Gary Cross
E-bok, 2020
120 kr
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Retired Major John Tiltborough was enjoying his time in the high mountain ranges in the snow and cold hunting for deer. Unbeknown to John, he was about to stumble across a massive child abduction and pornography organisation. After saving three young teenage children he now has to get his old team …
Consumer Engineering, 1920s–1970s
Marketing between Expert Planning and Consumer Responsiveness
Av Jan Logemann, Gary Cross m. fl.
Inbunden, 2019
1243 kr
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In the middle of the twentieth century, a new class of marketing expert emerged beyond the familiar ad men of Madison Avenue. Working as commercial designers, consumer psychologists, sales managers, and market researchers, these professionals were self-defined “consumer engineers,” and their rise …
