Fables of Abundance: A Cultural History of Advertising in America
Fables of Abundance ranges from the traveling peddlers of early modern Europe to the twentieth-century American corporation, exploring the ways that advertising collaborated with other cultural institutions to produce the dominant aspirations and anxieties in the modern United States.
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- Hachette UK
- Year
- 1995
- ISBN-13
- 9780786723225
- Genre
- History
- Topics
- AdvertisingConsumer cultureAmerican cultural history
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