Beauty and Business: Commerce, Gender, and Culture in Modern America

Leading historians explore how our ideas of what is attractive are influenced by a broad range of social and economic factors. They force us to reckon with the ways that beauty has been made, bought and sold in modern America.

Author: Philip Scranton
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 12/20/2000
Pages: 344
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.02lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.72d
ISBN: 9780415926676

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 12/01/2000 pg. 156
Choice 10/01/2001 pg. 353
Library Journal 12/20/2000

About the Author

Philip Scranton is the Governor's Board Professor at Rutgers, editor of the journal Enterprise and Society, and director of research at the Hagley Center. He is author of several books, including Endless Novelty: Specialty Production and American Industrialization (1997).