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A token of my affection : greeting cards and American business culture /

"A Token of My Affection shows in detail how the evolution of the greeting card reveals the fundamental power of economic organization to enable and constrain experiences of longing, status, desire, social connectedness, and love and to structure and partially determine the most private, intern...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Shank, Barry (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Columbia University Press, 2004.
Colección:Popular cultures, everyday lives.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:"A Token of My Affection shows in detail how the evolution of the greeting card reveals the fundamental power of economic organization to enable and constrain experiences of longing, status, desire, social connectedness, and love and to structure and partially determine the most private, internal, and intimate of feelings." "Beautifully illustrated, A Token of My Affection follows the development of the modern greeting card industry from the 1840s, as a way of recovering that most elusive of things - the emotional subjectivity of another age. Barry Shank charts the evolution of the greeting card from an afterthought to a traditional printing and stationery business in the mid-nineteenth century to a multibillion-dollar industry a hundred years later."--Jacket.
Descripción Física:1 online resource
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780231509251
0231509251