The volumes in this series are developed in conjunction with annual conferences held at the Center for the History of Business, Technology, and Society at the Hagley Museum and Library. The individual volumes, and the series as a whole, focus widely on the relationship between institutions and culture and, more narrowly, on the influence enterprises and technologies have on the cultural practices of American society as well as the influence culture has on technology and business.
Series Editor:
Roger Horowitz
Director, Center for the History of Business, Technology, and Society, Hagley Museum and Library
Staff Editorial Contact:
Robert Lockhart, Senior Editor rlockhar@upenn.edu
Capitalism and the Senses is the first edited volume to explore how the forces of capitalism are entangled with everyday sensory experience. If the senses have a history, as Karl Marx wrote, then that...
