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Philip Scranton
Beauty and Business [PDF ebook]
Commerce, Gender, and Culture in Modern America

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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.

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Formatera PDF ● Sidor 288 ● ISBN 9781136692574 ● Redaktör Philip Scranton ● Utgivare Taylor and Francis ● Publicerad 2014 ● Nedladdningsbara 6 gånger ● Valuta EUR ● ID 3089358 ● Kopieringsskydd Adobe DRM

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