Background
Strasser, Susan was born on March 27, 1948 in Pittsburgh. Daughter of Alexander and Maxine Harriet (Hochberg) Strasser.
( An unprecedented look at that most commonplace act of e...)
An unprecedented look at that most commonplace act of everyday life-throwing things out-and how it has transformed American society. Susan Strasser's pathbreaking histories of housework and the rise of the mass market have become classics in the literature of consumer culture. Here she turns to an essential but neglected part of that culture-the trash it produces-and finds in it an unexpected wealth of meaning. Before the twentieth century, streets and bodies stank, but trash was nearly nonexistent. With goods and money scarce, almost everything was reused. Strasser paints a vivid picture of an America where scavenger pigs roamed the streets, swill children collected kitchen garbage, and itinerant peddlers traded manufactured goods for rags and bones. Over the last hundred years, however, Americans have become hooked on convenience, disposability, fashion, and constant technological change-the rise of mass consumption has led to waste on a previously unimaginable scale. Lively and colorful, Waste and Want recaptures a hidden part of our social history, vividly illustrating that what counts as trash depends on who's counting, and that what we throw away defines us as much as what we keep.
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(This sweeping history provides the reader with a better u...)
This sweeping history provides the reader with a better understanding of America’s consumer society, obsession with shopping, and devotion to brands. Focusing on the advertising campaigns of Coca-Cola, Kellogg’s, Wrigley’s, Gillette, and Kodak, Strasser shows how companies created both national brands and national markets. These new brands eventually displaced generic manufacturers and created a new desire for brand-name goods. The book also details the rise and development of department stores such as Macy’s, grocery store chains such as A&P and Piggly Wiggly, and mail-order companies like Sears Roebuck and Montgomery Ward.
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Strasser, Susan was born on March 27, 1948 in Pittsburgh. Daughter of Alexander and Maxine Harriet (Hochberg) Strasser.
Bachelor, Reed College, 1969. Master of Arts, State University of New York, Stony Brook, 1971. Doctor of Philosophy, State University of New York, Stony Brook, 1977.
Member faculty Evergreen State College, Olympia, Washington, 1975-1988. Lecturer Princeton (New Jersey) University, 1989. Director university honors program, associate professor history George Washington University, Washington, 1990-1992.
Research fellow German History Institute, 1993-1995. Visiting professor Bard Graduate Center, New York City, 1998-1999. Professor history University Delaware, Newark, since 1999.
Richards professor American history, since 2009. Consultant Smithsonian Institution, Washington.
(This sweeping history provides the reader with a better u...)
( An unprecedented look at that most commonplace act of e...)
Member American History Association, Organization American Historians.
Married Robert Elliott Guldin, May 9, 1992.