1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910968716303321

Autore

Gordon Andrew <1952->

Titolo

Fabricating consumers : the sewing machine in modern Japan / / Andrew Gordon

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berkeley, Calif., : University of California Press, c2012

ISBN

9786613520586

9781280103872

1280103876

9780520950313

0520950313

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (303 p.)

Collana

Asia : local studies/global themes ; ; no. 19

Disciplina

338.7/64620440952

Soggetti

Sewing-machine industry - United States - History - 20th century

Clothing trade - Japan - History - 20th century

Consumers - Japan - History - 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"A Philip E. Lilienthal book."

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

pt. 1. Singer in Japan -- pt. 2. Sewing modernity in war and peace.

Sommario/riassunto

Since its early days of mass production in the 1850's, the sewing machine has been intricately connected with the global development of capitalism. Andrew Gordon traces the machine's remarkable journey into and throughout Japan, where it not only transformed manners of dress, but also helped change patterns of daily life, class structure, and the role of women. As he explores the selling, buying, and use of the sewing machine in the early to mid-twentieth century, Gordon finds that its history is a lens through which we can examine the modern transformation of daily life in Japan. Both as a tool of production and as an object of consumer desire, the sewing machine is entwined with the emergence and ascendance of the middle class, of the female consumer, and of the professional home manager as defining elements of Japanese modernity.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910957018103321

Autore

Edelman Hendrik

Titolo

International publishing in the Netherlands, 1933-1945 : German exile, scholarly expansion, war-time clandestinity / / by Hendrik Edelman

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leiden ; ; Boston, : Brill, 2010

ISBN

1-283-03955-9

9786613039552

90-04-18783-9

90-04-18777-4

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (240 p.)

Collana

Library of the written word, , 1874-4834 ; ; v. 13

The industrial world ; ; v. 3

Disciplina

070.5/09492

Soggetti

Publishers and publishing - Netherlands - History - 20th century

German imprints - Publishing - Netherlands - History - 20th century

Exiles' writings, German - Publishing - Netherlands - History - 20th century

Foreign language publications - Publishing - Netherlands - History - 20th century

Publishers and publishing - Netherlands - History

Publishers and publishing - Netherlands

Foreign language publications - Netherlands

Netherlands Imprints

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Preliminary Material / H. Edelman -- Introduction / H. Edelman -- Prologue / H. Edelman -- International Publishing In The Netherlands / H. Edelman -- Catalog Of German, English And French Books And Periodicals Published In The Netherlands Between 1933 And 1945 / H. Edelman -- Bibliographical Sources / H. Edelman -- Index / H. Edelman.

Sommario/riassunto

International publishing in the Netherlands had a glorious tradition in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. A remarkable revival took place after 1933, when several Dutch publishers began to issue books



written by exiles of the Nazi regime in the German language. The decline of German scholarly and scientific publishing during the same time inspired a number of other Dutch publishers to expand their programs or start new ones. As the English language became more prominent internationally, enterprising Dutch publishers began to explore these markets as well. After the Germans invaded the Netherlands, a number of printers began to produce finely printed books and pamphlets in many languages clandestinely, as an act of defiance or to raise money for underground causes. This book documents these trends and events in the form of a series of bio-bibliographical portraits of the major participating publishers.