"Gadgets and Necessities: An Encyclopedia of Household Innovations" by Pauline Webb, Mark Suggitt
ABC-Clio Inc | 2000 | ISBN: 1576073831 1576070816 | 377 pages | chm | 1 MB
The title of this book implies that it is about things—gadgets and necessities within the twentieth-century home. In a way it is, but we hope that it is a little more than that. It is about people and their ideas, about their relationships with things and the value they placed upon them. It is also about people as the products of an industrial society that required them to be both producers and consumers.