Lifestyle revolution

Lifestyle revolution

Ben Highmore

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Manchester University Press (P648)
Año de edición:
2023
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Historia de la economía
ISBN:
9781526108821
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Lifestyle revolution charts how class culture, which many thought would be dissolved by mass consumption, was remade in the postwar period from flat-pack furniture, Mediterranean cuisine and lifestyle magazines - as a world of symbolic goods became an intimate environment alive with new feelings and attitudes.

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