Hagley Perspectives on Business and Culture
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
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Capitalism and the Senses
Price: $65.00
ISBN: 9781512824209
Pub Date: June 2023
Format: Hardcover
312 Pages
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...
Surveillance Capitalism in America
Price: $65.00
ISBN: 9780812253351
Pub Date: October 2021
Format: Hardcover
288 Pages
Surveillance Capitalism in America offers a crucial historical perspective on the intimate relationship between surveillance and capitalism. While surveillance is often associated with governments,...
Commercial Intimacy
Affinity and the Marketplace
Price: $75.00
ISBN: 9781512827507
Pub Date: June 2025
Format: Hardcover
328 Pages
Explores how marketers have leveraged feelings of personal familiarity in modern consumer capitalismOur wired world connects us with corporations in ways that, just a generation ago, would have been...
Capital Gains
Business and Politics in Twentieth-Century America
Price: $34.95
ISBN: 9780812224481
Pub Date: March 2019
Format: Paperback
312 Pages
Recent events—the Citizens United Supreme Court decision, the Occupy Wall Street movement, and efforts to increase the minimum wage, among others—have driven a tremendous surge of interest in the...
Capitalism's Hidden Worlds
Price: $59.95
ISBN: 9780812251814
Pub Date: January 2020
Format: Hardcover
320 Pages
A dynamic social history of shadow capitalism spanning the late nineteenth and twentieth centuriesObservers see free markets, the relentless pursuit of profit, and the unremitting drive to commodify...
Sound in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction
Price: $34.95
ISBN: 9780812222296
Pub Date: December 2012
Format: Paperback
320 Pages
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...
Green Capitalism?
Business and the Environment in the Twentieth Century
Price: $74.95
ISBN: 9780812249019
Pub Date: May 2017
Format: Hardcover
312 Pages
At a time when the human impact on the environment is more devastating than ever, business initiatives frame the quest to "green" capitalism as the key to humanity's long-term survival. Indeed, even...
Producing Fashion
Commerce, Culture, and Consumers
Price: $35.00
ISBN: 9780812220667
Pub Date: April 2009
Format: Paperback
376 Pages
How has Paris, the world's fashion capital, influenced Milan, New York, and Tokyo? When did the Marlboro Man become a symbol of American masculinity? Why do Americans love to dress down in high-tech...
Food Chains
From Farmyard to Shopping Cart
Price: $35.00
ISBN: 9780812221343
Pub Date: August 2010
Format: Paperback
304 Pages
In recent years, the integrity of food production and distribution has become an issue of wide social concern. The media frequently report on cases of food contamination as well as on the risks of hormones...
The Business of Tourism
Place, Faith, and History
Price: $29.95
ISBN: 9780812219654
Pub Date: November 2009
Format: Paperback
304 Pages
Emphasizing the economic and cultural dimensions of travel, The Business of Tourism explores the enterprises and technologies of tourist activity with a particular focus on tourism as a phenomenon through...

Capitalism and the Senses
Price: $65.00
ISBN: 9781512824209
Pub Date: June 2023
Format: Hardcover
312 Pages
Surveillance Capitalism in America
Price: $65.00
ISBN: 9780812253351
Pub Date: October 2021
Format: Hardcover
288 Pages
Commercial Intimacy
Affinity and the Marketplace
Price: $75.00
ISBN: 9781512827507
Pub Date: June 2025
Format: Hardcover
328 Pages
Capital Gains
Business and Politics in Twentieth-Century America
Price: $34.95
ISBN: 9780812224481
Pub Date: March 2019
Format: Paperback
312 Pages
Capitalism's Hidden Worlds
Price: $59.95
ISBN: 9780812251814
Pub Date: January 2020
Format: Hardcover
320 Pages
Sound in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction
Price: $34.95
ISBN: 9780812222296
Pub Date: December 2012
Format: Paperback
320 Pages
Green Capitalism?
Business and the Environment in the Twentieth Century
Price: $74.95
ISBN: 9780812249019
Pub Date: May 2017
Format: Hardcover
312 Pages
Producing Fashion
Commerce, Culture, and Consumers
Price: $35.00
ISBN: 9780812220667
Pub Date: April 2009
Format: Paperback
376 Pages
Food Chains
From Farmyard to Shopping Cart
Price: $35.00
ISBN: 9780812221343
Pub Date: August 2010
Format: Paperback
304 Pages
The Business of Tourism
Place, Faith, and History
Price: $29.95
ISBN: 9780812219654
Pub Date: November 2009
Format: Paperback
304 Pages