A token of my affection
greeting cards and American business culture
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Author
Publication
2004 - Columbia University Press, New York, New York (State)
Language
English
Word Count
82,000 words, Guess
Page Count
328 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL22860097M
- ISBN-100231118791
- OCLC Control Number54007118
- OCLC Control Numbertokenofmyaffecti0000shan
- Library of Congress Control Number2004041311
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- Goodreads1229779
- LibraryThing6979771
Classifications
- LCCHD9839.G73 U573 2004
Description
"A Token of My Affection shows in detail how the evolution of the greeting card reveals the fundamental power of economic organization to enable and constrain experiences of longing, status, desire, social connectedness, and love and to structure and partially determine the most private, internal, and intimate of feelings." "Beautifully illustrated, A Token of My Affection follows the development of the modern greeting card industry from the 1840s, as a way of recovering that most elusive of things - the emotional subjectivity of another age. Barry Shank charts the evolution of the greeting card from an afterthought to a traditional printing and stationery business in the mid-nineteenth century to a multibillion-dollar industry a hundred years later."--BOOK JACKET.
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Series Statement
- Popular cultures, everyday lives
Other Editions
- A token of my affection: greeting cards and American business culture
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