Bøger af James C. Davis

Examines consumer culture and race in the United States from 1893-1933 as they were manifested in advertising, literary texts, mass culture, and the public events of the period. This book proves that - in America - advertising, publicity, and the development of the modern economy cannot be understood apart from the question of race.

Rise From Want explores the ways in which a family of poor peasants from the Karst plateau above Trieste, Italy, lived through the great changes brought about by industrialization and modernization.