Children and consumer culture in American society; a historical handbook and guide.9780313331404 Children and consumer culture in American society; a historical handbook
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Ed. by Lisa Jacobson. Praeger 2008 195 pages $49.95 Hardcover Children and youth: history and culture HF5415 Jacobson (history, U. of California, Santa Barbara Santa Barbara (săn'tə bär`brə, –bərə), city (1990 pop. 85,571), seat of Santa Barbara co., S Calif., on the Pacific Ocean; inc. 1850. ) edits essays on the role of children in the economy, focusing on the period from the Gilded Age Gilded Age The years between the Civil War and World War I when institutions undertook financial manipulations that went virtually unchecked by government. This era produced many infamous activities in the security markets. through the 20th century, examining how and why children and adolescents acquired new roles as consumers and how those new roles reflected and produced changes in family life and the nature of capitalism. The book is sectioned into three parts of original essays, thematic the·mat·ic adj. 1. Of, relating to, or being a theme: a scene of thematic importance. 2. primary documents and advertisements ranging from 1892-1972, and an extensive bibliography bibliography. The listing of books is of ancient origin. Lists of clay tablets have been found at Nineveh and elsewhere; the library at Alexandria had subject lists of its books. divided into three sections. Thematic topics include children's media consumption and struggles for cultural authority in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, promoting and courting the child consumer, and parenting and parent- child relationships in the consumer household. ([c]20082005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR) |
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