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Packaged Pleasures : How Technology and Marketing Revolutionized Desire
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Packaged Pleasures : How Technology and Marketing Revolutionized Desire Hardcover - 2014 - 1st Edition

by Proctor, Robert N., Cross, Gary S

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  • Title Packaged Pleasures : How Technology and Marketing Revolutionized Desire
  • Author Proctor, Robert N., Cross, Gary S
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Condition Used - Very Good
  • Pages 336
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of Chicago Press, U.S.A.
  • Date 2014-09
  • Features Bibliography, Index
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 10864173-75
  • ISBN 9780226121277 / 0226121275
  • Weight 1.36 lbs (0.62 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.28 x 6.37 x 1.03 in (23.57 x 16.18 x 2.62 cm)
  • Themes
    • Aspects (Academic): Historical
    • Chronological Period: 20th Century
  • Library of Congress subjects Consumer behavior, Technological innovations - Social aspects
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2013049702
  • Dewey Decimal Code 658.823

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  • Choice, 04/01/2015, Page 1336
  • Discover, 11/01/2014, Page 68
  • Library Journal, 08/01/2014, Page 104

About the author

Gary S. Cross is distinguished professor of modern history at Pennsylvania State University and the author of many books, including An All-Consuming Century: Why Commercialism Won in Modern America and The Playful Crowd: Pleasure Places in the Twentieth Century. Robert N. Proctor is professor of history of science at Stanford University and the author of many books, including Racial Hygiene: Medicine Under the Nazis and Value-Free Science? Purity and Power in Modern Knowledge.