Packaged Pleasures – How Technology and Marketing Revolutionized Desire

by Robert N. Proctor (Author), Gary S. Cross (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2014

  $32.80

  From the candy bar to the cigarette, records to roller coasters, a technological revolution during the last quarter of the nineteenth century precipitated a colossal shift in human consumption and sensual experience. This book sheds new light on the origins of modern consumer culture and how technologies have transformed human sensory experience.