Gary S. Cross

Autore di An All-consuming Century: Why Commercialism Won in Modern America

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Gary S. Cross is distinguished, professor of modern history at Pennsylvania State University and the author or coauthor of many books, most recently Packaged Pleasures: How Technology and Marketing Revolutionized Desire, also published by the University of Chicago Press.

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An All-consuming Century: Why Commercialism Won in Modern America (2000) 76 copie

Men to Boys: The Making of Modern Immaturity (2008) 40 copie

Packaged Pleasures: How Technology and Marketing Revolutionized Desire (2014) 35 copie

Technology and American Society (2nd Edition) (1994) 26 copie

The Playful Crowd: Pleasure Places in the Twentieth Century (2005) 23 copie

The Cute and the Cool: Wondrous Innocence and Modern American Children's Culture (2004) 22 copie

Kids' Stuff: Toys and the Changing World of American Childhood (1997) 21 copie

Consumed Nostalgia: Memory in the Age of Fast Capitalism (2015) 15 copie

Tempo e danaro. La nascita della cultura del consumo (1993) 13 copie

Encyclopedia of Recreation & Leisure in America Edition 1. (Scribner American Civilization) (2004) 11 copie

Plague of the Undead: Chronicles of Blood (2009) 8 copie

Free Time: The History of an Elusive Ideal (2024) 6 copie

A social history of leisure since 1600 (1990) 6 copie

Stormalong's Great Sea Adventures (1995) 5 copie

Borderland (2005) 4 copie

The sky's the limit (2000) 3 copie

Paul Bunyan (1996) 3 copie

Freak show legacies : how the cute, camp and creepy shaped modern popular culture (2021) 3 copie

Machines of youth : America's car obsession (2018) 3 copie

Worktime and industrialization : an international history (1988) 2 copie

Drinking in the past: six beverages that changed the world.(A History of the World in 6 Glasses)(Book Review): An… 2 copie

Worktowners at Blackpool: Mass-Observation and Popular Leisure in the 1930s (1990) 2 copie

The Dead At Deepminden (2006) 2 copie

Super sister (2009) 2 copie

Kid's Stuff 2 copie

Body Works (2000) 2 copie

A quest for time : the reduction of work in Britain and France, 1840 - 1940 (1989) 1 copia

ENCYLOPEDIA OF RECREATION AND LEISURE IN AMERICA--VOLUME 2 (MAGAZINES-ZOOS INDEX) (2004) 1 copia

Un monde à conserver 1 copia

Integrating science and language: a literacy guide for Pan-Canadian science place, grade 4-6. (2000) 1 copia

Vial 023: A Father's Pursuit of Justice (2012) 1 copia

AIR AND WATER (2000) 1 copia

Sound and light (2008) 1 copia

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Opere correlate

DK Eyewitness Travel Guide : Great Britain (1995) — Illustratore — 1,145 copie

Work, community, and power : the experience of labor in Europe and America, 1900-1925 (1983) — Collaboratore — 5 copie

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automobiles (cars) (1) bambini (2) childhood studies (2) Classe (3) Coney Island (2) consumer culture (3) Consumismo (7) consumption (4) Cultura (3) cultura americana (1) Cultura di massa (2) Cultural Studies (3) da leggere (10) Economia (5) giocattoli (3) history of childhood (3) Impresa (3) Infanzia (4) letto (3) lista dei desideri (2) Marketing (2) mascolinità (2) Narrativa (2) Novecento (3) Ozio (2) Psicologia (2) Saggistica (10) Science Place (2) Società (3) Sociologia (7) Stati Uniti d'America (6) Storia (15) storia americana (3) Storia degli Stati Uniti d'America (2) storia della tecnologia (2) studi americani (2) Tecnologia (4) trasporti (1) USA (4) XIX secolo (2)

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Informazioni generali

Nome canonico: Cross, Gary S.
Altri nomi: Cross, Gary Scott
Data di nascita: 1946-09-25
Sesso: male
Istruzione: University of Wisconsin, Madison (PhD|1977)
University of Wisconsin, Madison (AM|1973)
Harvard University (MDiv|1972)
Washington State University (AB|1968)
Attività lavorative: historian
university professor

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Borderland di Gary Cross

Set in NZ. Lucas is dared to go near the old “haunted house”. There is a rumour that a man went mad there and killed his children – their bodies were never found. He climbs up a tree and through the window notices a fantastic mural painted on all 4 sides of a child’s bedroom. Then suddenly something hideous jumps straight at the window and he falls out of the tree scared to death. Enter Rosie who comes to stay with her parents and discovers the hideous truth about her Uncle Silo & what is hiding in the mural.p.1 from “Five minutes shy of midnight” to p.6 “lived”… (altro)

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