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Waste and Want: A Social History of Trash.
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- ISBN 10
- 0805065121
- ISBN 13
- 9780805065121
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Peninsula, Ohio, United States
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Sobre este artículo
Owl Books, 1999. Ex-Library. Trade Paperback. Very Good. GREAT BOOK! NO SPINE CREASES & MILD SHELF WEAR ON COVER. A FEW LIBRARY STAMPS, LIGHTLY AGED, NO MARKINGS IN TEXT. Description: An unprecedented look at that most commonplace act of everyday life-throwing things out-and how it has transformed American society. Susan Strasser's pathbreaking histories of housework and the rise of the mass market have become classics in the literature of consumer culture. Here she turns to an essential but neglected part of that culture-the trash it produces-and finds in it an unexpected wealth of meaning. Before the twentieth century, streets and bodies stank, but trash was nearly nonexistent. With goods and money scarce, almost everything was reused. Strasser paints a vivid picture of an America where scavenger pigs roamed the streets, swill children collected kitchen garbage, and itinerant peddlers traded manufactured goods for rags and bones. Over the last hundred years, however, Americans have become hooked on convenience, disposability, fashion, and constant technological change-the rise of mass consumption has led to waste on a previously unimaginable scale. Lively and colorful, Waste and Want recaptures a hidden part of our social history, vividly illustrating that what counts as trash depends on who's counting, and that what we throw away defines us as much as what we keep.
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- Librería
- Cuyahoga Valley Book Company (US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 16491
- Título
- Waste and Want: A Social History of Trash.
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Trade Paperback
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Muy bueno
- Edición
- Ex-Library
- Encuadernación
- Tapa blanda
- ISBN 10
- 0805065121
- ISBN 13
- 9780805065121
- Editorial
- Owl Books
- Lugar de publicación
- New York, New York, U.s.a.
- Fecha de publicación
- 1999
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