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  • Commodifying Everything

    Relationships of the Market

    Modifié par Susan Strasser ...
    Collections series Hagley Center Studies in the History of Business and Technology
    Commodification refers most explicitly to the activities of turning things into commodities and of commercializing that which is not commercial in essence. The mass marketing of pets, the rise of the coffin industry, the conversion of preacher into salesmen, and the globalization of Taleggio cheese are some of the exciting but surprising topics in this volume that show how friendship, death, ... En savoir plus

    $83.81 CAD

  • Never Done

    A History of American Housework

    par Susan Strasser ...
    Never Done is the first history of American housework. Beginning with a description of household chores of the nineteenth century--cooking at fireplaces and on cast-iron stoves, laundry done with wash boilers and flatirons, endless water hauling and fire tending--Susan Strasser demonstrates how industrialization transformed the nature of women's work. Lightening some tasks and eliminating the need ... En savoir plus

    $17.59 CAD

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    American Gardening Programs of World War I

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    Sometimes, to move forward, we must look back. Gardening activity during American involvement in World War I (1917-1919) is vital to understanding current work in agriculture and food systems. The origins of the American Victory Gardens of World War II lie in the Liberty Garden program during World War I. This book examines the National War Garden Commission, the United States School Garden Army, ... En savoir plus

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  • All That She Carried

    The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake

    par Tiya Miles ...
    **NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A renowned historian traces the life of a single object handed down through three generations of Black women to craft a “deeply layered and insightful” (The Washington Post) testament to people who are left out of the archives.WINNER: Frederick Douglass Book Prize, Harriet Tubman Prize, PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award, Anisfield-Wolf Book ... En savoir plus

    $16.99 CAD

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  • Sitopia

    How Food Can Save the World

    par Carolyn Steel ...
    'A visionary look at how quality food should replace money as the new world currency' Tim Spector'Hugely ambitious and beautifully written...destined to become a modern classic' Bee WilsonHow we search for, make and consume food has defined human history. It transforms our bodies and homes, our politics and our trade, our landscapes and our climate. But by forgetting our culinary heritage and ... En savoir plus

    $12.99 CAD

  • The Secret History of Home Economics

    How Trailblazing Women Harnessed the Power of Home and Changed the Way We Live

    par Danielle Dreilinger ...
    **"Deeply researched and crisply written." —Margaret Talbot,?The New YorkerThe surprising, often fiercely feminist, always fascinating, yet barely known, history of home economics.**The term “home economics” may conjure traumatic memories of lopsided hand-sewn pillows or sunken muffins. But common conception obscures the story of the revolutionary science of better living. The field exploded ... En savoir plus

    $18.99 CAD

  • Empire of Things

    How We Became a World of Consumers, from the Fifteenth Century to the Twenty-First

    par Frank Trentmann ...
    The epic history of consumption, and the goods that have transformed our lives over the past 600 yearsWhat we consume has become the defining feature of our lives: our economies live or die by spending, we are treated more as consumers than workers, and even public services are presented to us as products in a supermarket. In this monumental study, acclaimed historian Frank Trentmann unfolds the ... En savoir plus

    $12.99 CAD

  • Ramp Hollow

    The Ordeal of Appalachia

    par Steven Stoll ...
    How the United States underdeveloped AppalachiaAppalachia—among the most storied and yet least understood regions in America—has long been associated with poverty and backwardness. But how did this image arise and what exactly does it mean? In Ramp Hollow, Steven Stoll launches an original investigation into the history of Appalachia and its place in U.S. history, with a special emphasis on how ... En savoir plus

    $19.19 CAD

  • Assembling the Dinosaur

    Fossil Hunters, Tycoons, and the Making of a Spectacle

    par Lukas Rieppel ...
    A lively account of the dinosaur's role in Gilded Age America, examining the connection between business, paleontology, and museums.Although dinosaur fossils were first found in England, a series of dramatic discoveries during the late 1800s turned North America into a world center for vertebrate paleontology. At the same time, the United States emerged as the world's largest industrial economy, ... En savoir plus

    $23.19 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • The Environment and the People in American Cities, 1600s-1900s

    Disorder, Inequality, and Social Change

    par Dorceta E. Taylor ...
    In The Environment and the People in American Cities, Dorceta E. Taylor provides an in-depth examination of the development of urban environments, and urban environmentalism, in the United States. Taylor focuses on the evolution of the city, the emergence of elite reformers, the framing of environmental problems, and the perceptions of and responses to breakdowns in social order, from the ... En savoir plus

    $46.99 CAD

  • More Work for Mother: The Ironies of Household Technology from the Open Hearth to the Microwave

    par Ruth Schwartz Cowan ...
    Surrounded by mechanical appliances and electronic gadgets, today’s woman devotes as much time to housework as a woman living in the early decades of the 20th century. This book explains why.“This work won the 1984 Dexter Prize of the Society for the History of Technology. It is a history of housework and household technology from the 17th century to the present. Ruth Schwartz Cowan contends that ... En savoir plus

    $13.73 CAD

  • Cotton

    The Biography of a Revolutionary Fiber

    par Stephen Yafa ...
    In the tradition of Mark Kurlansky's Cod and Salt, this endlessly revealing book reminds us that the fiber we think of as ordinary is the world's most powerful cash crop, and that it has shaped the destiny of nations. Ranging from its domestication 5,500 years ago to its influence in creating Calvin Klein's empire and the Gap, Stephen Yafa's Cotton gives us an intimate look at the plant that ... En savoir plus

    $16.99 CAD