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Author Maines, Rachel, 1950-

Title Hedonizing technologies : paths to pleasure in hobbies and leisure / Rachel P. Maines
Published Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, ©2009

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Description 1 online resource (x, 211 pages) : illustrations
Series Book collections on Project MUSE
Contents Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 What Is a Hedonizing Technology? -- 2 Leisure and Necessity -- 3 Hedonization and Industrialization: Diverging Paths in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries -- 4 The Hedonizing Marketplace -- 5 Why, When, and How Do Technologies Hedonize? -- Appendixes -- A: Biases of Collecting and Connoisseurship -- B: Methodological Notes -- Notes -- Glossary -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- L -- M -- N -- P -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- Y -- Index -- A -- B -- C
De -- f -- g -- h -- i -- j -- k -- l -- m -- n -- o -- p -- q -- r -- s -- t -- v -- w -- y
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Hobbies -- History
Amusements -- History
Technology -- Economic aspects -- History -- Popular works
CRAFTS & HOBBIES -- General.
Amusements
Hobbies
Technology -- Economic aspects
Genre/Form History
Popular works
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2008043993
ISBN 9780801897948
0801897947