Fables Of Abundance
A Cultural History Of Advertising In America
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- 4,49 €
Description de l’éditeur
Fables of Abundance ranges from the traveling peddlers of early modern Europe to the twentieth-century American corporation, exploring the ways that advertising collaborated with other cultural institutions to produce the dominant aspirations and anxieties in the modern United States.
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History professor Lears's study of the rise of American consumerism explores the repressive aspects of advertising's equating of material abundance with social status.