Vance Packard’s ‘Hidden Persuaders’ was an exposé of the new techniques of mass manipulation developed by 1950s...
Day: April 8, 2019
In the 1920s, doctors who believed labour-saving devices in the home were creating a ‘vacuum’ in housewives’...
The full range of consumer goods of the period was set out to tempt the shopper and...
The Mediterranean Sea was the economic focal point of the Roman Empire. By Michael GoodyearJ.D. CandidateUniversity of Michigan...
Behind today’s populist upheavals is a widespread recognition that the economy no longer serves the public good,...
The wealth of Egypt was owed in large part to the unrivaled fertility of the Nile. By...
A small number of sites, especially from the Middle and New Kingdoms, provide us with extraordinary amounts...