Susan Strasser

This sweeping history provides the reader with a better understanding of America’s consumer society, obsession with shopping, and devotion to brands. Focusing on the advertising campaigns of Coca-Cola

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 developing history of consumption is not so much a separate field, as a prism through which many aspects of social and political life may be viewed. The essays in this collection represent a variety of approaches in Europe and America; yet their commonalities suggest recent directions in the scholarship, raising such themes as consumption and democracy, the development of a global economy, the role of the state, the centrality of consumption to Cold War politics, the importance of the Second World War as a historical divide, the language of consumption, the contexts of locality, race, ethnicity, gender, and class, and the environmental consequences of twentieth-century consumer society. Implicitly, and sometimes explicitly, they explore the role of the historian as social, political, and moral critic. The essays discuss products, corporate strategies, government policies, and ideas about consumption. Unlike other studies of twentieth-century consumption, this book provides internat

First Published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

During the twentieth century sound underwent a dramatic transformation as new technologies and social practices challenged conventional aural experience. As a result, sound functioned as a means to ex

Women reformers in the United States and Germany maintained a brisk dialogue between 1885 and 1933. Drawing on one another's expertise, they sought to alleviate a wide array of social injustices gener

來自美國的Susan是深度貓控。來到臺灣之後，就被臺灣友善貓咪店家與貓店長深深地吸引住。因為在美國的貓咪店長很少，也不如台灣的方便好親近，臺灣對Susan來說根本就是貓咪天堂。於是挖到寶藏的Susan開始探訪全臺灣超過80間以上的貓咪店長，收集每一隻貓店長的故事，並記錄在自己的部落格上與外國朋友分享。今天，Susan要將臺灣貓咪店長的幸福分享給大家，以雙語編撰出這本私藏的貓咪地圖，讓臺灣的友善寵物

As people struggle with a sense of crisis and confusion they search for clarity and meaning. Increasingly they turn to psychotherapists and counsellors, who will find in this book a powerful existenti