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Author: Fátima Milnitzky
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Published: 2000
Total Pages: 6
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An All-consuming Century
Author: Gary S. Cross
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 342
ISBN-13: 9780231113120
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe victory of consumerism in America was not a foregone conclusion. The United States has traditionally been home to the most aggressive and thoughtful critics of consumption such as Puritanism and Prohibition. This work offers a history of how market forces came to dominate American life.
When We Cease to Understand the World
Author: Benjamin Labatut
Publisher: New York Review of Books
Published: 2021-09-28
Total Pages: 193
ISBN-13: 1681375664
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOne of The New York Times Book Review’s 10 Best Books of 2021 Shortlisted for the 2021 International Booker Prize and the 2021 National Book Award for Translated Literature A fictional examination of the lives of real-life scientists and thinkers whose discoveries resulted in moral consequences beyond their imagining. When We Cease to Understand the World is a book about the complicated links between scientific and mathematical discovery, madness, and destruction. Fritz Haber, Alexander Grothendieck, Werner Heisenberg, Erwin Schrödinger—these are some of luminaries into whose troubled lives Benjamín Labatut thrusts the reader, showing us how they grappled with the most profound questions of existence. They have strokes of unparalleled genius, alienate friends and lovers, descend into isolation and insanity. Some of their discoveries reshape human life for the better; others pave the way to chaos and unimaginable suffering. The lines are never clear. At a breakneck pace and with a wealth of disturbing detail, Labatut uses the imaginative resources of fiction to tell the stories of the scientists and mathematicians who expanded our notions of the possible.
Decoding Modern Consumer Societies
Author: H. Berghoff
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2012-01-02
Total Pages: 458
ISBN-13: 1137013001
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDrawing 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 us decode modern consumer societies.
Consuming Subjects
Author: Elizabeth Kowaleski-Wallace
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 200
ISBN-13: 0231105797
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDrawing on feminist criticism, cultural studies, and new historicist ideas, Kowaleski-Wallace suveys eighteenth century literary texts, material object, and cultural events to illuminate the ways in which women are both controlled by and empowered through images of consumption.
The Rise of Consumer Capitalism in America, 1880 - 1930
Author: Cesare Silla
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2018-04-27
Total Pages: 258
ISBN-13: 1315399644
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book offers a genealogical account of the rise of consumer capitalism, tracing its origins in America between 1880 and 1930 and explaining how it emerged to become the dominant form of social organization of our time. Asking how it was that we came to be consumers who live in societies that revolve around an ever-spinning circle of production and consumption, not only of goods, but also of events, experiences, emotions and relations, The Rise of Consumer Capitalism in America presents an extensive analysis of primary sources to demonstrate the conditions and forces from which consumer capitalism emerged and became victorious. Employing a Weberian approach that brings liminality to the fore as a master concept to make sense of historical change, the author links an in-depth empirical investigation to supple sociological theorizing to show how the encirclement of all aspects of life by the logic of consumer capitalism was a time-bound historical creation rather than a necessary one. A fascinating study of the appearance and triumph of the "ideology" of our age, this book will appeal to scholars of social and anthropological theory, historical sociology, cultural history and American studies.
Marketing Theory
Author: Michael J Baker
Publisher: SAGE
Published: 2010-03-18
Total Pages: 449
ISBN-13: 1446211045
DOWNLOAD EBOOKElectronic Inspection Copy available for instructors here Building on the popularity of the first edition, published in 2000, the Second Edition brings together revised and new, original chapters from an outstanding team of contributors providing an authoritative overview of the theoretical foundations and current status of thinking on topics central to the discipline and practice of marketing. Summary of key features: - A marketing theory text written specifically for students - Provides an introduction and overview of the role of theory in marketing - Contributors are leading, well-established authorities in their fields - Explains key concepts for students in a clear, readable and concise manner. - Provides full, in-depth coverage of all topics, with recommended further readings
Cecil B. DeMille, Classical Hollywood, and Modern American Mass Culture
Author: David Blanke
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2018-05-26
Total Pages: 336
ISBN-13: 3319769863
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book uses the long and profitable career of Cecil B. DeMille to track the evolution of Classical Hollywood and its influence on emerging mass commercial culture in the US. DeMille’s success rested on how well his films presumed a broad consensus in the American public—expressed through consumer hedonism, faith, and an “exceptional” national history—which merged seamlessly with the efficient production methods developed by the largest integrated studios. DeMille’s sudden mid-career shift away from spectator perversity to corporate propagandist permanently tarnished the director’s historical standing among scholars, yet should not overshadow the profound links between his success and the rise and fall of mid-century mass culture.
Social Communication in Advertising
Author: William Leiss
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2018-06-14
Total Pages: 502
ISBN-13: 135160290X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNewly updated for the digital era, this classic textbook provides a comprehensive historical study of advertising and its function within contemporary society by tracing advertising's influence throughout different media and cultural periods, from early magazines through to social media. With several new chapters on the rise of the Internet, mobile, and social media, this fourth edition offers new insights into the role of Google, Facebook, Snapchat, and YouTube as both media and advertising companies, as well as examining the role of brand culture in the 21st century.
Consumer Culture and Society
Author: Wendy Wiedenhoft Murphy
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Published: 2016-07-27
Total Pages: 184
ISBN-13: 1506351034
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe author is a proud sponsor of the 2020 SAGE Keith Roberts Teaching Innovations Award—enabling graduate students and early career faculty to attend the annual ASA pre-conference teaching and learning workshop. Consumer Culture and Society offers an introduction to the study of consumerism and mass consumption from a sociological perspective. It examines what we buy, how and where we consume, the meanings attached to the things we purchase, and the social forces that enable and constrain consumer behavior. Opening chapters provide a theoretical overview and history of consumer society and featured case studies look at mass consumption in familiar contexts, such as tourism, food, and higher education. The book explores ethical and political concerns, including consumer activism, indebtedness, alternative forms of consumption, and dilemmas surrounding the globalization of consumer culture.
