Capitalism's Eye: Cultural Spaces of the Commodity - Hardcover

Hetherington, Kevin

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0415933404 ISBN 13: 9780415933407

Publisher: Routledge, 2007

Synopsis

Capitalism's Eye is an extremely ambitious cultural history of how people experienced commodities in the era of industrial expansion. Writing against the dominant argument that the 'society of the spectacle' emerged fully formed in the mid-nineteenth century, Kevin Hetherington explains that the emergence of a culture of mass consumption dominated by visual experience was a much slower process, not truly ascendant until after the First World War. Looking at the department stores, home life, and the great exhibitions around the turn of the last century, Capitalism's Eye promises to transform how we understand both the cultural history of capitalism in America and Europe and the historical roots of the mediated spectacle that dominates our world today.

About this title

About the Author:

Kevin Hetherington is Professor of Geography at Open University, UK.

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0415933404
• ISBN 13: 9780415933407
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 232