Crap : a history of cheap stuff in America / Wendy A. Woloson.
Crap : a history of cheap stuff in America / Wendy A. Woloson.
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Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2020.
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G 2020/4992
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English
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388 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
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text
Media type
unmediated
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volume
Contents
Introduction : Our crap, our selves -- A nation of cheap jacks. From the cheapening mania to universal cheapness ; Cheap goods in a chain store age -- Better living through gadgetry. Perpetual improvements ; Gadget mania -- Land of the free. Getting nothing for something ; The price of loyalty -- (N...
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Publisher
Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2020.
Place of Publication
Illinois
Date Published
2020.
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Summary
"Wendy Woloson considers seriously the detritus of everyday consumerist Western lives--a category that comprises objects that function as art, jokes, tools, embodiments of fantasies, cultural signifiers, status symbols, and much more; a.k.a. "crap." She seeks to use these possessions to illuminate our society, culture, and economy. Why do we--as in...
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Crap : a history of cheap stuff in America / Wendy A. Woloson.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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ebook version : 9780226664491
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G 2020/4992
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74VKaJ8blAQX
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKaJ8blAQX
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ISBN
022666435X
9780226664354
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688.7260973
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991024372713902626
