Gary Cross, professor of history at Penn State, is author of numerous articles and eight books, including
Kid”s Stuff: Toys and the Changing Worlds of American Childhood, Time and Money: The Making of Consumer Culture, A Quest for Time: The Reduction of Work in Britain and France, and
Technology and American Society.
15 Електронні книги від Gary Cross
Gary Cross: An All-Consuming Century
The unqualified victory of consumerism in America was not a foregone conclusion. The United States has traditionally been the home of the most aggressive and often thoughtful criticism of consumption …
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Gary Cross & John Walton: The Playful Crowd
During the first part of the twentieth century thousands of working-class New Yorkers flocked to Coney Island in search of a release from their workaday lives and the values of bourgeois society. On …
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Gary Cross: Men to Boys
Adam Sandler movies, HBO’s Entourage, and such magazines as Maxim and FHM all trade in and appeal to one characterthe modern boy-man. Addicted to video games, comic books, extreme sports, and dressi …
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Gary Cross: Consumed Nostalgia
Nostalgia isn’t what it used to be. For many of us, modern memory is shaped less by a longing for the social customs and practices of the past or for family heirlooms handed down over generations and …
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€26.99
Jan Logemann & Gary Cross: Consumer Engineering, 1920s–1970s
In the middle of the twentieth century, a new class of marketing expert emerged beyond the familiar ad men of Madison Avenue. Working as commercial designers, consumer psychologists, sales managers, …
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€85.59
Gary Cross: Cute and the Cool
The twentieth century was, by any reckoning, the age of the child in America. Today, we pay homage at the altar of childhood, heaping endless goods on the young, reveling in memories of a more innoce …
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€53.07
Gary Cross: Cute and the Cool
The twentieth century was, by any reckoning, the age of the child in America. Today, we pay homage at the altar of childhood, heaping endless goods on the young, reveling in memories of a more innoce …
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€68.52
Gary Cross: Worktowners at Blackpool
Gary Cross publishes the findings of this largely forgotten study by the Mass-Observers who followed the annual pilgrimage of labourers to Blackpool, hoping to discover what attracted workers to this …
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€95.29
Gary Cross: Worktowners at Blackpool
Gary Cross publishes the findings of this largely forgotten study by the Mass-Observers who followed the annual pilgrimage of labourers to Blackpool, hoping to discover what attracted workers to this …
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€56.70
Gary Cross: Worktowners at Blackpool
Gary Cross publishes the findings of this largely forgotten study by the Mass-Observers who followed the annual pilgrimage of labourers to Blackpool, hoping to discover what attracted workers to this …
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€56.50
Gary Cross & Rick (University of Alberta, Canada) Szostak: Technology and American Society
Providing a global perspective on the development of American technology, Technology and American Society offers a historical narrative detailing major technological transformations over the last thr …
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€75.21
Gary Cross & Rick (University of Alberta, Canada) Szostak: Technology and American Society
Providing a global perspective on the development of American technology, Technology and American Society offers a historical narrative detailing major technological transformations over the last thr …
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€75.76
Gary Cross: The Adventures of Major John Tiltborough
Retired Major John Tiltborough was enjoying his time in the high mountain ranges in the snow and cold hunting for deer. Unbeknown to John, he was about to stumble across a massive child abduction and …
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€7.99
Gary Cross: A Quest for Time
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach …
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€48.99
Gary Cross: Kids” Stuff
To sort out who”s who and what”s what in the enchanting, vexing world of Barbies® and Ninja Turtles®, Tinkertoys® and teddy bears, is to begin to see what”s become of childhood in America. It is t …
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