Download or read book Decoding Modern Consumer Societies written by H. Berghoff and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-01-02 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on a wide range of studies of Europe, the United States, Asia, and Africa, the contributions gathered here consider how political history, business history, the history of science, cultural history, gender history, intellectual history, anthropology, and even environmental history can help us decode modern consumer societies.