Beauty and Business (Hagley Perspectives on Business and Culture) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 041592667X ISBN 13: 9780415926676

Publisher: Routledge, 2001

Synopsis

Leading historians explore how our ideas of what is attractive are influenced by a broad range of social and economic factors. They force us to reckon with the ways that beauty has been made, bought and sold in modern America.

About this title

About the Author:

Philip Scranton is the Governor's Board Professor at Rutgers, editor of the journal Enterprise and Society, and director of research at the Hagley Center. He is author of several books, including Endless Novelty: Specialty Production and American Industrialization (1997).

Review:

"These essays from a conference a the Hagley Museum and Library...attest to the growth of women in business and the welcome incursion of social and gender history into traditional business history...The mix is both interesting and potentially widely useful, not only for the study of business or women in business, but for a variety of other academic pursuits. It is a welcome addition to a growing body of literature."
-Choice
"Recommended for business historians and upper-division academic libraries with women's studies programs."
-Library Journal

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 041592667X
• ISBN 13: 9780415926676
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 344
• Editor: Scranton Philip