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The Sheer Ecstasy of Being a Lunatic Farmer
The Sheer Ecstasy of Being a Lunatic Farmer© 2010 Joel Salatin300 pages Joel Salatin is crazy and glad to be so; in print and in media like Food, Inc and Fresh, he gleefully rejects what the late 20th century produced as conventional … Continue reading
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Tagged farming, goods/services, Joel Salatin, organic, social criticism, Society and Culture
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Tobacco
Tobacco: A Cultural History of How an Exotic Plant Seduced Civilization416 pages© 2003 Iain Gateley The age of discovery opened an era of global domination by European culture and power, but in at least one instance, the new world had its … Continue reading
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Tagged America, Britain, Colonial America, goods/services, history, social history
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Living Downtown
Living Downtown: The History of Residential Hotels in the United States © 1994 Paul Groth 399 pages Although today hotels are thought of as places for travelers, at its most basic level a hotel is simply a rented room; an … Continue reading
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Tagged business, cities, goods/services, history, home, housing, social history
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Drink
Drink: A Cultural History of Alcohol© 2008 Ian Gately546 pages “We should thank God for beer and burgundy by not drinking too much of them.” – G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy A substance that a third of the world institutionalizes as a … Continue reading
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Tagged America, Britain, Colonial America, food and drink, France, goods/services, history, social history
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An Edible History of Humanity
An Edible History of Humanity© 2010 Tom Standage288 pages Tom Standage offers a course in human history set at the dinner table, beginning with agriculture and moving swiftly to the green revolution. His A History of the World in Six … Continue reading
A Splendid Exchange
A Splendid Exchange: How Trade Shaped the World© 2009 David Bernstein496 pages History oft moves with the caravans and trade fleets, and its journeys along the routes of the past and present are given a storied account … Continue reading
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Tagged America, Asia, Britain, commerce, Europe, goods/services, history, Middle East, Near East, Netherlands, resources, survey, trains
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More Work for Mother
More Work for Mother: the Ironies of American Housework © 1985 Ruth Cowan 288 pages Throughout the 20thcentury, households were transformed by a new abundance of labor-saving devices, from washing machines to toaster ovens, and processed … Continue reading
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Tagged America, goods/services, history, home, social history, technology, Technology and Society, women, women's studies
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Why We Buy
Why We Buy: The Science of Shopping© 1997, 2008 Paco UnderhillSimon and Schuster320 pages No book on marketing, Why We Buy is an introduction to the novel field of retail anthropology. Young Paco Underhill was once an urban studies student assigned … Continue reading
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Tagged anthropology, business, commerce, goods/services, marketing
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The Call of the Mall
Call of the Mall: the Geography of Shopping© 2005 Paco Underbill240 pages Paco Underhill wants to take a little walk with you through the local mall, to see it with his eyes- the eyes of a “retail anthropologist” and marketing … Continue reading
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