"This book situates and reappraises Thorstein Veblen's famous Theory of the Leisure Class in the time and especially the place (Chicago) in which it was written"--
"This book situates and reappraises Thorstein Veblen's famous Theory of the Leisure Class in the time and especially the place (Chicago) in which it was written"--
Joanna Merwood-Salisbury is Professor of Architecture at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. She has held academic positions at Parsons School of Design, Bard College, and the University of Illinois at Chicago. Her publications include Design for the Crowd, After Taste, coedited with Kent Kleinman and Lois Weinthal, and Chicago 1890.
Inhaltsangabe
CONTENTS Introduction: The Book and the City 1 1 The Ethnology of the Leisure Class 27 2 Pecuniary Culture 75 3 Mechanisms of Consumption 127 4 The Business of Vice 171 5 New Industrial Institutions 209 Conclusion: Picturing Veblen’s Chicago 259 Acknowledgments 279 Image Credits 281 Notes 289 Index 317
CONTENTS Introduction: The Book and the City 1 1 The Ethnology of the Leisure Class 27 2 Pecuniary Culture 75 3 Mechanisms of Consumption 127 4 The Business of Vice 171 5 New Industrial Institutions 209 Conclusion: Picturing Veblen’s Chicago 259 Acknowledgments 279 Image Credits 281 Notes 289 Index 317
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