A token of my affection : greeting cards and American business culture / Barry Shank.
"A Token of My Affection shows in detail how the evolution of the greeting card reveals the fundamental power of economic organization to enable and constrain experiences of longing, status, desire, social connectedness, and love and to structure and partially determine the most private, intern...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Columbia University Press,
2004.
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| Series: | Popular cultures, everyday lives.
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| Summary: | "A Token of My Affection shows in detail how the evolution of the greeting card reveals the fundamental power of economic organization to enable and constrain experiences of longing, status, desire, social connectedness, and love and to structure and partially determine the most private, internal, and intimate of feelings." "Beautifully illustrated, A Token of My Affection follows the development of the modern greeting card industry from the 1840s, as a way of recovering that most elusive of things - the emotional subjectivity of another age. Barry Shank charts the evolution of the greeting card from an afterthought to a traditional printing and stationery business in the mid-nineteenth century to a multibillion-dollar industry a hundred years later."--BOOK JACKET. |
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| Physical Description: | xvii, 328 pages : illustrations (some colour) ; 22 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-313) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0231118783 9780231118781 0231118791 9780231118798 |