Packaged Pleasures: How Technology and Marketing Revolutionized Desire

by Gary S. Cross and Robert N. Proctor

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From the candy bar to the cigarette, records to roller coasters, a technological revolution during the last quarter of the nineteenth century precipitated a colossal shift in human consumption and sensual experience. Food, drink, and many other consumer goods came to be mass-produced, bottled, canned, condensed, and distilled, unleashing new and intensified surges of pleasure, delight, thrill--and addiction. In Packaged Pleasures , Gary S. Cross and...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0226121275

ISBN13:9780226121277

Release Date:September 2014

Publisher:University of Chicago Press

Length:336 Pages

Weight:1.35 lbs.

Dimensions:1.0" x 6.4" x 9.3"

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Business Business & Investing Economics Engineering History Technology

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