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Hagley Perspectives on Business and Culture


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Food Nations Selling Taste in Consumer Societies

Food Nations: Selling Taste in Consumer Societies

1st Edition

Edited By Warren Belasco, Philip Scranton
October 12, 2001

This original collection abandons culinary nostalgia and the cataloguing of regional cuisines to examine the role of food and food marketing in constructing culture, consumer behavior, and national identity....

Beauty and Business Commerce, Gender, and Culture in Modern America

Beauty and Business: Commerce, Gender, and Culture in Modern America

1st Edition

Edited By Philip Scranton
December 20, 2000

Leading historians explore how our ideas of what is attractive are influenced by a broad range of social and economic factors. They force us to reckon with the ways that beauty has been made, bought and sold in modern America....

Boys and their Toys Masculinity, Class and Technology in America

Boys and their Toys: Masculinity, Class and Technology in America

1st Edition

Edited By Roger Horowitz
August 06, 2001

Negotiating the divide between "respectable manhood" and "rough manhood" this book explores masculinity at work and at play through provocative essays on labor unions, railroads, vocational training programs, and NASCAR racing....

The Technological Fix How People Use Technology to Create and Solve Problems

The Technological Fix: How People Use Technology to Create and Solve Problems

1st Edition

Edited By Lisa Rosner
August 09, 2004

The term "technological fix" should mean a fix provided by technology--a solution for all of our problems, from medicine and food production to the environment and business. Instead, technological fix has come to mean a cheap, quick fix using inappropriate technology that usually creates more ...

Industrializing Organisms Introducing Evolutionary History

Industrializing Organisms: Introducing Evolutionary History

1st Edition

Edited By Susan Schrepfer, Philip Scranton
October 31, 2003

Scientists have developed a featherless chicken designed to make industrial chicken production more efficient, while specially trained Pacific bottlenose dolphins are being deployed in the Persian Gulf to disarm mines and protect our Navy. Everyone knows Darwin's theory of natural selection, but ...

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