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Consumers, Tinkerers, Rebels - The People Who Shaped Europe (Hardcover, New)
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Consumers, Tinkerers, Rebels - The People Who Shaped Europe (Hardcover, New)
Series: Making Europe
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Who has decided how Europeans have dressed and dwelled? Traveled
and dined? Worked and played? Who, in fact, can be credited with
the shaping of Europe?
Certainly inventors, engineers, and politicians played their parts.
But in the making of Europe, consumers, tinkerers, and rebels were
an unrecognized force - until now. In this book, historians Ruth
Oldenziel and Mikael Hard spotlight the people who 'made' Europe -
by appropriating technology, protesting for and against it. Using
examples from Britain and the Continent, the authors illustrate the
conflicts that accompanied the modern technologies, from the sewing
machine to the bicycle, the Barbie doll to personal computers. What
emerges is a fascinating portrait of how Europeans have lived, from
the 1850s to the current century.
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