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Beauty and Business
Commerce, Gender, and Culture in Modern America
Inbunden, 2000
2586 kr
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Leading historians explore how our ideas of what is attractive are influenced by a broad range of social and economic factors. They force us to reckon with the ways that beauty has been made, bought and sold in modern America.
Beauty and Business
Commerce, Gender, and Culture in Modern America
Häftad, 2000
667 kr
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Leading historians explore how our ideas of what is attractive are influenced by a broad range of social and economic factors. They force us to reckon with the ways that beauty has been made, bought and sold in modern America.
Boys and their Toys
Masculinity, Class and Technology in America
Inbunden, 2001
2133 kr
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Negotiating the divide between "respectable manhood" and "rough manhood" this book explores masculinity at work and at play through provocative essays on labor unions, railroads, vocational training programs, and NASCAR racing.
Boys and their Toys
Masculinity, Class and Technology in America
Häftad, 2001
648 kr
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Negotiating the divide between "respectable manhood" and "rough manhood" this book explores masculinity at work and at play through provocative essays on labor unions, railroads, vocational training programs, and NASCAR racing.
Food Nations
Selling Taste in Consumer Societies
Av Warren Belasco, Philip Scranton
Inbunden, 2001
2512 kr
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This original collection abandons culinary nostalgia and the cataloguing of regional cuisines to examine the role of food and food marketing in constructing culture, consumer behavior, and national identity.
Food Nations
Selling Taste in Consumer Societies
Av Warren Belasco, Philip Scranton
Häftad, 2001
648 kr
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This original collection abandons culinary nostalgia and the cataloguing of regional cuisines to examine the role of food and food marketing in constructing culture, consumer behavior, and national identity.
Industrializing Organisms
Introducing Evolutionary History
Av Susan Schrepfer, Philip Scranton
Inbunden, 2003
2512 kr
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Scientists have developed a featherless chicken designed to make industrial chicken production more efficient, while specially trained Pacific bottlenose dolphins are being deployed in the Persian Gulf to disarm mines and protect our Navy. Everyone knows Darwin's theory of natural selection, but …
Industrializing Organisms
Introducing Evolutionary History
Av Susan Schrepfer, Philip Scranton
Häftad, 2003
706 kr
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Scientists have developed a featherless chicken designed to make industrial chicken production more efficient, while specially trained Pacific bottlenose dolphins are being deployed in the Persian Gulf to disarm mines and protect our Navy. Everyone knows Darwin's theory of natural selection, but …
Technological Fix
How People Use Technology to Create and Solve Problems
Av Lisa Rosner
Inbunden, 2004
2512 kr
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The term "technological fix" should mean a fix provided by technology--a solution for all of our problems, from medicine and food production to the environment and business. Instead, technological fix has come to mean a cheap, quick fix using inappropriate technology that usually creates more …
Technological Fix
How People Use Technology to Create and Solve Problems
Av Lisa Rosner
Häftad, 2004
648 kr
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The term "technological fix" should mean a fix provided by technology--a solution for all of our problems, from medicine and food production to the environment and business. Instead, technological fix has come to mean a cheap, quick fix using inappropriate technology that usually creates more …
Food Chains
From Farmyard to Shopping Cart
Av Warren Belasco, Roger Horowitz
E-bok, 2011
493 kr
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In recent years, the integrity of food production and distribution has become an issue of wide social concern. The media frequently report on cases of food contamination as well as on the risks of hormones and cloning. Journalists, documentary filmmakers, and activists have had their say, but until …
Producing Fashion
Commerce, Culture, and Consumers
E-bok, 2011
559 kr
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How has Paris, the world's fashion capital, influenced Milan, New York, and Tokyo? When did the Marlboro Man become a symbol of American masculinity? Why do Americans love to dress down in high-tech Lycra fabrics, while they wax nostalgic for quaint, old-fashioned Victorian cottages?Fashion icons …
Sound in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction
Av David Suisman, Susan Strasser
E-bok, 2011
504 kr
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During the twentieth century sound underwent a dramatic transformation as new technologies and social practices challenged conventional aural experience. As a result, sound functioned as a means to exert social, cultural, and political power in unprecedented and unexpected ways. The fleeting nature …
Business of Tourism
Place, Faith, and History
Av Philip Scranton, Janet F. Davidson
Häftad, 2009
342 kr
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Emphasizing the economic and cultural dimensions of travel, The Business of Tourism explores the enterprises and technologies of tourist activity with a particular focus on tourism as a phenomenon through which nations, regions, and individuals produce and consume experiences. The volume is divided …
Food Chains
From Farmyard to Shopping Cart
Av Warren Belasco, Roger Horowitz
Häftad, 2010
400 kr
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In recent years, the integrity of food production and distribution has become an issue of wide social concern. The media frequently report on cases of food contamination as well as on the risks of hormones and cloning. Journalists, documentary filmmakers, and activists have had their say, but until …
Sound in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction
Av David Suisman, Susan Strasser
Häftad, 2012
400 kr
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During the twentieth century sound underwent a dramatic transformation as new technologies and social practices challenged conventional aural experience. As a result, sound functioned as a means to exert social, cultural, and political power in unprecedented and unexpected ways. The fleeting nature …
Capital Gains
Business and Politics in Twentieth-Century America
Av Richard R. John, Kim Phillips-Fein
Häftad, 2019
400 kr
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Recent events-the Citizens United Supreme Court decision, the Occupy Wall Street movement, and efforts to increase the minimum wage, among others-have driven a tremendous surge of interest in the political power of business. Capital Gains collects some of the most innovative new work in the field. …
Capital Gains
Business and Politics in Twentieth-Century America
Av Richard R. John, Kim Phillips-Fein
Inbunden, 2016
1171 kr
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Recent events-the Citizens United Supreme Court decision, the Occupy Wall Street movement, and efforts to increase the minimum wage, among others-have driven a tremendous surge of interest in the political power of business. Capital Gains collects some of the most innovative new work in the field. …
Green Capitalism?
Business and the Environment in the Twentieth Century
Av Hartmut Berghoff, Adam Rome
Inbunden, 2017
880 kr
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At a time when the human impact on the environment is more devastating than ever, business initiatives frame the quest to "green" capitalism as the key to humanity's long-term survival. Indeed, even before the rise of the environmental movement in the 1970s, businesses sometimes had reasons to …
Capitalism's Hidden Worlds
Av Kenneth Lipartito, Lisa Jacobson
Inbunden, 2020
706 kr
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A dynamic social history of shadow capitalism spanning the late nineteenth and twentieth centuriesObservers see free markets, the relentless pursuit of profit, and the unremitting drive to commodify everything as capitalism's defining characteristics. These most visible economic features, however, …
Surveillance Capitalism in America
Av Josh Lauer, Kenneth Lipartito
Inbunden, 2021
757 kr
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Surveillance Capitalism in America offers a crucial historical perspective on the intimate relationship between surveillance and capitalism. While surveillance is often associated with governments, today the role of the private sector in the spread of everyday surveillance is the subject of growing …
Capital Gains
Business and Politics in Twentieth-Century America
Av Richard R. John, Kim Phillips-Fein
E-bok, 2016
493 kr
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Recent events-the Citizens United Supreme Court decision, the Occupy Wall Street movement, and efforts to increase the minimum wage, among others-have driven a tremendous surge of interest in the political power of business. Capital Gains collects some of the most innovative new work in the field. …
Green Capitalism?
Business and the Environment in the Twentieth Century
Av Hartmut Berghoff, Adam Rome
E-bok, 2017
1058 kr
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At a time when the human impact on the environment is more devastating than ever, business initiatives frame the quest to "green" capitalism as the key to humanity's long-term survival. Indeed, even before the rise of the environmental movement in the 1970s, businesses sometimes had reasons to …
Capitalism's Hidden Worlds
Av Kenneth Lipartito, Lisa Jacobson
E-bok, 2019
806 kr
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A dynamic social history of shadow capitalism spanning the late nineteenth and twentieth centuriesObservers see free markets, the relentless pursuit of profit, and the unremitting drive to commodify everything as capitalism's defining characteristics. These most visible economic features, however, …
Surveillance Capitalism in America
Av Josh Lauer, Kenneth Lipartito
E-bok, 2021
920 kr
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Surveillance Capitalism in America offers a crucial historical perspective on the intimate relationship between surveillance and capitalism. While surveillance is often associated with governments, today the role of the private sector in the spread of everyday surveillance is the subject of growing …
Capitalism and the Senses
Av Regina Lee, Blaszczyk, Regina Lee Blaszczyk m. fl.
Inbunden, 2023
759 kr
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Capitalism and the Senses is the first edited volume to explore how the forces of capitalism are entangled with everyday sensory experience. If the senses have a history, as Karl Marx wrote, then that history is inseparable from the development of capitalism, which has both taken advantage of the …
Capitalism and the Senses
Av Regina Lee Blaszczyk, David Suisman
E-bok, 2023
920 kr
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Capitalism and the Senses is the first edited volume to explore how the forces of capitalism are entangled with everyday sensory experience. If the senses have a history, as Karl Marx wrote, then that history is inseparable from the development of capitalism, which has both taken advantage of the …
Commercial Intimacy
Affinity and the Marketplace
Av Richard Popp, Brenton Malin m. fl.
Inbunden, 2025
883 kr
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Explores how marketers have leveraged feelings of personal familiarity in modern consumer capitalismOur wired world connects us with corporations in ways that, just a generation ago, would have been hard to imagine. Marketers track users' habits down to the swipe and scroll; brand influencers reach …
Commercial Intimacy
Affinity and the Marketplace
Av Richard Popp, Brenton Malin m. fl.
E-bok, 2025
1259 kr
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Explores how marketers have leveraged feelings of personal familiarity in modern consumer capitalismOur wired world connects us with corporations in ways that, just a generation ago, would have been hard to imagine. Marketers track users' habits down to the swipe and scroll; brand influencers reach …
Raw Capital
More-Than-Human Business History
Av Gregory A. Hargreaves, Timothy J. LeCain m. fl.
Inbunden, 2027
869 kr
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