Consumers, Tinkerers, Rebels
Subtitle: The People Who Shaped Europe
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: Sep 17, 2013
Language: eng
Format: hardcover
Number of pages: 416
ISBN-13: 9780230308015
Description: "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 Hård 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." -- Publisher website.
Notes: Source title: Consumers, Tinkerers, Rebels: The People Who Shaped Europe (Making Europe)