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21 produkter
Decoding Modern Consumer Societies
Av H. Berghoff, U. Spiekermann
Inbunden, 2011
568 kr
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Drawing on a wide range of studies of Europe, the United States, Asia, and Africa, the contributions gathered here consider how political history, business history, the history of science, cultural history, gender history, intellectual history, anthropology, and even environmental history can help …
Development of Consumer Credit in Global Perspective
Business, Regulation, and Culture
Av J. Logemann
Inbunden, 2012
568 kr
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This volume brings together historians, economists, political scientists, and anthropologists to present a global perspective on the new forms of lending and borrowing that have become a key feature of twentieth-century mass consumer societies, emphasizing comparative and transnational historical …
Rise of Marketing and Market Research
Av H. Berghoff, P. Scranton m. fl.
Inbunden, 2012
568 kr
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This volume serves up a combination of broad questions, theoretical approaches, and manifold case studies to explore how people have sought to understand markets and thereby reduce risk, whether they have approached this challenge with a practical view based on their own business acumen or used the …
Berlin’s Black Market
1939-1950
Inbunden, 2015
568 kr
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This book puts the illegal economy of the German capital during and after World War II into context and provides a new interpretation of Germany's postwar history. The black market, it argues, served as a reference point for the beginnings of the two new German states.
Globalizing Beauty
Consumerism and Body Aesthetics in the Twentieth Century
Inbunden, 2013
1464 kr
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This volume aims to advance our understanding of beauty's role in modern consumer societies by bringing together fresh scholarship that addresses a common set of questions from a variety of disciplinary perspectives, including especially history, but also black studies, women's studies, German …
Science of Beauty
Culture and Cosmetics in Modern Germany, 1750–1930
Inbunden, 2015
568 kr
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What did the cosmetic practices of middle-class women in the nineteenth century have in common with the repair of men's bodies mutilated in war? What did the New Woman of the Weimar years have to do with the field of social medicine that emerged in the same period? They were all part of a …
Food and Foodways in Italy from 1861 to the Present
Inbunden, 2015
568 kr
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Despite being a universal experience, eating occures with remarkable variety across time and place: not only do we not eat the same things, but the related technologies, rituals, and even the timing are in constant flux. This lively and innovative history paints a fresco of the Italian nation by …
Decoding Modern Consumer Societies
Av H. Berghoff, U. Spiekermann
Häftad, 2011
568 kr
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Drawing on a wide range of studies of Europe, the United States, Asia, and Africa, the contributions gathered here consider how political history, business history, the history of science, cultural history, gender history, intellectual history, anthropology, and even environmental history can help …
Development of Consumer Credit in Global Perspective
Business, Regulation, and Culture
Av J. Logemann
Häftad, 2012
568 kr
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This volume brings together historians, economists, political scientists, and anthropologists to present a global perspective on the new forms of lending and borrowing that have become a key feature of twentieth-century mass consumer societies, emphasizing comparative and transnational historical …
Rise of Marketing and Market Research
Av H. Berghoff, P. Scranton m. fl.
Häftad, 2012
568 kr
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This volume serves up a combination of broad questions, theoretical approaches, and manifold case studies to explore how people have sought to understand markets and thereby reduce risk, whether they have approached this challenge with a practical view based on their own business acumen or used the …
Science of Beauty
Culture and Cosmetics in Modern Germany, 1750–1930
Häftad, 2015
568 kr
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What did the cosmetic practices of middle-class women in the nineteenth century have in common with the repair of men's bodies mutilated in war? What did the New Woman of the Weimar years have to do with the field of social medicine that emerged in the same period? They were all part of a …
Consumer Engineering, 1920s–1970s
Marketing between Expert Planning and Consumer Responsiveness
Av Jan Logemann, Gary Cross m. fl.
Inbunden, 2019
1240 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 …
Consumer Engineering, 1920s–1970s
Marketing between Expert Planning and Consumer Responsiveness
Av Jan Logemann, Gary Cross m. fl.
Häftad, 2020
904 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 …
Jewish Consumer Cultures in Nineteenth and Twentieth-Century Europe and North America
Av Paul Lerner, Uwe Spiekermann m. fl.
Inbunden, 2022
1534 kr
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This book investigates the place and meaning of consumption in Jewish lives and the roles Jews played in different consumer cultures in modern Europe and North America. Drawing on innovative, original research into this new and challenging field, the volume brings Jewish studies and the history and …
Jewish Consumer Cultures in Nineteenth and Twentieth-Century Europe and North America
Av Paul Lerner, Uwe Spiekermann m. fl.
Häftad, 2023
1534 kr
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This book investigates the place and meaning of consumption in Jewish lives and the roles Jews played in different consumer cultures in modern Europe and North America. Drawing on innovative, original research into this new and challenging field, the volume brings Jewish studies and the history and …
Feeling Lucky
The Production of Gambling Experiences in Monte Carlo and Las Vegas
Av Paul Franke
Inbunden, 2023
1580 kr
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Monte Carlo and Las Vegas have become synonymous with casino gambling. Both destinations featured it as part of a broad variety of leisure and consumption opportunities that normalized games of chance and created emotional atmospheres that supported the hedonistic aspects of gambling. Urban spaces …
Feeling Lucky
The Production of Gambling Experiences in Monte Carlo and Las Vegas
Av Paul Franke
Häftad, 2024
1580 kr
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Monte Carlo and Las Vegas have become synonymous with casino gambling. Both destinations featured it as part of a broad variety of leisure and consumption opportunities that normalized games of chance and created emotional atmospheres that supported the hedonistic aspects of gambling. Urban spaces …
China's Art Market since 1978
Regional Entrepreneurship and Global Impact
Av Li Ma
Inbunden, 2023
1467 kr
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This book examines the rising global prominence of China’s art market throughout the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. To understand the far-reaching impact of Chinese art on global consumption, this book traces the shift from regional markets to global markets. It asks how the Chinese art …
China's Art Market since 1978
Regional Entrepreneurship and Global Impact
Av Li Ma
Häftad, 2024
1467 kr
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This book examines the rising global prominence of China’s art market throughout the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. To understand the far-reaching impact of Chinese art on global consumption, this book traces the shift from regional markets to global markets. It asks how the Chinese art …
Bright Modernity
Color, Commerce, and Consumer Culture
Av Regina Lee Blaszczyk, Uwe Spiekermann
Inbunden, 2017
1530 kr
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Color is a visible technology that invisibly connects so many puzzling aspects of modern Western consumer societies—research and development, making and selling, predicting fashion trends, and more. Building on Regina Lee Blaszczyk’s go-to history of the “color revolution” in the United States, …
Bright Modernity
Color, Commerce, and Consumer Culture
Av Regina Lee Blaszczyk, Uwe Spiekermann
Häftad, 2018
1580 kr
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Color is a visible technology that invisibly connects so many puzzling aspects of modern Western consumer societies—research and development, making and selling, predicting fashion trends, and more. Building on Regina Lee Blaszczyk’s go-to history of the “color revolution” in the United States, …
