Gary S. Cross

Autor von An All-consuming Century: Why Commercialism Won in Modern America

33+ Werke 344 Mitglieder 2 Rezensionen

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Gary S. Cross is distinguished, professor of modern history at Pennsylvania State University and the author or coauthor of many books, most recently Packaged Pleasures: How Technology and Marketing Revolutionized Desire, also published by the University of Chicago Press.

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An All-consuming Century: Why Commercialism Won in Modern America (2000) 76 Exemplare

Men to Boys: The Making of Modern Immaturity (2008) 40 Exemplare

Packaged Pleasures: How Technology and Marketing Revolutionized Desire (2014) 35 Exemplare

Technology and American Society (2nd Edition) (1994) 26 Exemplare

The Playful Crowd: Pleasure Places in the Twentieth Century (2005) 23 Exemplare

The Cute and the Cool: Wondrous Innocence and Modern American Children's Culture (2004) 22 Exemplare

Kids' Stuff: Toys and the Changing World of American Childhood (1997) 21 Exemplare

Consumed Nostalgia: Memory in the Age of Fast Capitalism (2015) 15 Exemplare

Time and Money: The Making of a Consumer Culture (1993) 13 Exemplare

Encyclopedia of Recreation & Leisure in America Edition 1. (Scribner American Civilization) (2004) 11 Exemplare

Plague of the Undead: Chronicles of Blood (2009) 8 Exemplare

Free Time: The History of an Elusive Ideal (2024) 6 Exemplare

A social history of leisure since 1600 (1990) 6 Exemplare

Stormalong's Great Sea Adventures (1995) 5 Exemplare

Borderland (2005) 4 Exemplare

The sky's the limit (2000) 3 Exemplare

Paul Bunyan (1996) 3 Exemplare

Freak show legacies : how the cute, camp and creepy shaped modern popular culture (2021) 3 Exemplare

Machines of youth : America's car obsession (2018) 3 Exemplare

Worktime and industrialization : an international history (1988) 2 Exemplare

Drinking in the past: six beverages that changed the world.(A History of the World in 6 Glasses)(Book Review): An… 2 Exemplare

Worktowners at Blackpool: Mass-Observation and Popular Leisure in the 1930s (1990) 2 Exemplare

The Dead At Deepminden (2006) 2 Exemplare

Super sister (2009) 2 Exemplare

Kid's Stuff 2 Exemplare

Body Works (2000) 2 Exemplare

A quest for time : the reduction of work in Britain and France, 1840 - 1940 (1989) 1 Exemplar

ENCYLOPEDIA OF RECREATION AND LEISURE IN AMERICA--VOLUME 2 (MAGAZINES-ZOOS INDEX) (2004) 1 Exemplar

Un monde à conserver 1 Exemplar

Integrating science and language: a literacy guide for Pan-Canadian science place, grade 4-6. (2000) 1 Exemplar

Vial 023: A Father's Pursuit of Justice (2012) 1 Exemplar

AIR AND WATER (2000) 1 Exemplar

Sound and light (2008) 1 Exemplar

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Vis-à-Vis Grossbritannien (1995) — Illustrator — 1,145 Exemplare

Work, community, and power : the experience of labor in Europe and America, 1900-1925 (1983) — Mitwirkender — 5 Exemplare

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Gebräuchlichste Namensform: Cross, Gary S.
Andere Namen: Cross, Gary Scott
Geburtstag: 1946-09-25
Geschlecht: male
Ausbildung: University of Wisconsin, Madison (PhD|1977)
University of Wisconsin, Madison (AM|1973)
Harvard University (MDiv|1972)
Washington State University (AB|1968)
Berufe: historian
university professor

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Borderland von Gary Cross

Set in NZ. Lucas is dared to go near the old “haunted house”. There is a rumour that a man went mad there and killed his children – their bodies were never found. He climbs up a tree and through the window notices a fantastic mural painted on all 4 sides of a child’s bedroom. Then suddenly something hideous jumps straight at the window and he falls out of the tree scared to death. Enter Rosie who comes to stay with her parents and discovers the hideous truth about her Uncle Silo & what is hiding in the mural.p.1 from “Five minutes shy of midnight” to p.6 “lived”… (mehr)

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