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Record Nr.

UNINA9910524704603321

Autore

Laird Pamela Walker <1947-, >

Titolo

Advertising Progress : American Business and the Rise of Consumer Marketing / / Pamela Walker Laird

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Johns Hopkins University Press

ISBN

1-4214-3417-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (1 online resource (xiv, 479 pages) :) : illustrations

Collana

Studies in industry and society

Soggetti

Advertising - Social aspects

Advertising

Advertising - Social aspects - United States - History

Advertising - United States - History

United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

The text of this book is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivatives 4.0 International License

Open access edition supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities / Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Humanities Open Book Program.

Originally published as Johns Hopkins Press in 1998

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 387-451) and index.

Nota di contenuto

; part 1. Production as Progress. ; Ch. 1. Marketing Problems and Advertising Methods as America Industrialized. ; Ch. 2. Owner-Manager Control of Advertising. ; Ch. 3. Printers, Advertisers, and Their Products. ; Ch. 4. Advertising Progress as a Measure of Worth -- ; part 2. Specialization as Progress. ; Ch. 5. Early Advertising Specialists. ; Ch. 6. Competition and Control: Business Conditions and Marketing Practices. ; Ch. 7. The Competition to Modernize Advertising Services -- ; part 3. Consumption as Progress. ; Ch. 8. Taking Advertisements toward Modernity. ; Ch. 9. Modernity and Success: Legitimating the Advertising Profession-I. ; Ch. 10. The Appropriation of Progress: Legitimating the Advertising Profession-II.

Sommario/riassunto

Contains primary source material.

The book is a documentary and pictorial examination of American advertising from the Civil War to 1920.