The intimate economies of Bangkok [[electronic resource] ] : tomboys, tycoons, and Avon ladies in the global city / / Ara Wilson |
Autore | Wilson Ara |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, : University of California Press, 2004 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (288 p.) |
Disciplina | 381/.1/09593 |
Soggetto topico |
Sex role - Thailand - Bangkok
Capitalism - Social aspects - Thailand - Bangkok Globalization Women - Thailand - Social conditions Women - Thailand - Economic conditions |
Soggetto non controllato |
amway
anthropological study anthropologists avon ladies avon bangkok business relationships capitalism case studies commerce and business contemporary bangkok department stores economic boom economic development economic expansion economic history ethnographers ethnography feminist theory global economy globalization gogo bars identities malls modern lifestyles modern markets private life public life sex workers telecommunications textbooks thai society thailand tomboys tycoons |
ISBN |
1-282-35976-2
9786612359767 0-520-93743-0 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Notes On Transliteration And Dates -- Introduction: Intimate Economies -- 1. From Shophouse To Department Store -- 2. The Economies Of Intimacy In The Go-Go Bar -- 3. MBK: The Retail Revolution And The Infrastructure Of Romance -- 4. The Flexible Citizens Of IBC Cable TV -- 5. The Avon Lady, The Amway Plan, And The Making Of Thai Entrepreneurs -- Conclusion: The Intimacy Of Capitalism -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910778486503321 |
Wilson Ara
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Marianne in the market [[electronic resource] ] : envisioning consumer society in fin-de-siècle France / / Lisa Tiersten |
Autore | Tiersten Lisa <1959-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2001 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (337 p.) |
Disciplina | 339.4/7/0820944 |
Soggetto topico |
Women consumers - France - History - 19th century
Consumption (Economics) - France - History - 19th century Middle class - France - History - 19th century Aesthetics, Modern - 19th century |
Soggetto non controllato |
19th century
advertising aesthetics bourgeoisie capitalism commercialization consumer culture department stores domesticity economics etiquette books fashion female bourgeois female consumer female morality france french culture french republic french women gender roles gender studies gender good taste la belle epoque nonfiction republican women womens studies |
ISBN |
1-282-35635-6
9786612356353 0-520-92565-3 1-59734-735-3 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Marianne in the Department Store: Commercial Paris and the Civic Vision of the Republic -- 2. "The Mercantile Spirit of Our Epoch": The Aesthetic Crisis of the Republic -- 3. Being Bourgeois: The Rise of Aesthetic Individuality -- 4. Marketplace Modernism: Reinventing the Chic Parisienne -- 5. The Chic Interior: Marketplace Modernism in the Bourgeois Home -- 6. Consumer Citizenship and the Republicanization of the Market -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910780376603321 |
Tiersten Lisa <1959->
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Shanghai splendor [[electronic resource] ] : economic sentiments and the making of modern China, 1843-1949 / / Wen-hsin Yeh |
Autore | Yeh Wen-Hsin |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2007 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (338 p.) |
Disciplina | 330.951/13204 |
Soggetto topico | Merchants - China - Shanghai - History |
Soggetto non controllato |
1940s
20th century asia asian history banks capitalism capitalist china chinese history communism communist takeover communist cultural history cultural studies department stores economic economics economy evolution maritime metropolis middle class modern history modernization opium war political politics publishing shanghai social history social studies sociocultural urban culture urban world history |
ISBN |
1-282-35919-3
9786612359194 0-520-93342-7 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | The material turn -- The state in commerce -- Visual politics and Shanghai glamour -- The clock and the compound -- Enlightened paternalism -- Petty urbanites and tales of woe -- From patriarchs to capitalists -- Epilogue: the return of the banker. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910778402303321 |
Yeh Wen-Hsin
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Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2007 | ||
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