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Hedonizing Technologies : Paths to Pleasure in Hobbies and Leisure.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009Copyright date: ©2009Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (224 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780801897948
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Hedonizing TechnologiesDDC classification:
  • 790.1/309
LOC classification:
  • GV1201.5 .M35 2009
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 What Is a Hedonizing Technology? -- 2 Leisure and Necessity -- 3 Hedonization and Industrialization: Diverging Paths in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries -- 4 The Hedonizing Marketplace -- 5 Why, When, and How Do Technologies Hedonize? -- Appendixes -- A: Biases of Collecting and Connoisseurship -- B: Methodological Notes -- Notes -- Glossary -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- L -- M -- N -- P -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- Y -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- Y.
Summary: The book addresses basic issues in the history of labor and industry and makes an original contribution to the discussion of how technology and people interact.
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Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 What Is a Hedonizing Technology? -- 2 Leisure and Necessity -- 3 Hedonization and Industrialization: Diverging Paths in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries -- 4 The Hedonizing Marketplace -- 5 Why, When, and How Do Technologies Hedonize? -- Appendixes -- A: Biases of Collecting and Connoisseurship -- B: Methodological Notes -- Notes -- Glossary -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- L -- M -- N -- P -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- Y -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- Y.

The book addresses basic issues in the history of labor and industry and makes an original contribution to the discussion of how technology and people interact.

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