Barbarian architecture : Thorstein Veblen's Chicago

Barbarian architecture Thorstein Veblen's Chicago

Introduction: The Book and the City -- The Ethnology of the Leisure Class: The Fair and the Castle -- Pecuniary Culture: The Elevator Building and the University -- Mechanisms of Consumption: Fashion and the Department Store -- The Business of Vice: The Levee -- New Industrial Institutions: The Work...

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1. Verfasser: Merwood-Salisbury, Joanna (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:eng
Veröffentlicht: Cambridge, Massachusetts, London, England The MIT Press 2024
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Veblen, Thorstein > Architecture and society > History > Chicago (Ill.) > Social conditions > Chicago, Ill. > Architektur > Gesellschaft > Kulturkritik > Geschichte 1899
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Zusammenfassung:Introduction: The Book and the City -- The Ethnology of the Leisure Class: The Fair and the Castle -- Pecuniary Culture: The Elevator Building and the University -- Mechanisms of Consumption: Fashion and the Department Store -- The Business of Vice: The Levee -- New Industrial Institutions: The Workshop, the School, and the Museum -- Conclusion: Picturing Veblen's Chicago.
"This book situates and reappraises Thorstein Veblen's famous Theory of the Leisure Class in the time and especially the place (Chicago) in which it was written"--
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references and index
Beschreibung:332 Seiten
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ISBN:9780262547413
978-0-262-54741-3