Book interviews tagged Everyday Existence

Children of the Revolution: The French, 1799—1914
- ISBN: 978 0 674 03209 5
- featured in: The coming together of many Frances which had so long been in conflictDecember 19, 2008

The Civil Contract of Photography
- ISBN: 978 1 890951 88 7
- featured in: The photograph as an unintentional effect of an encounter between photographer, photographed subject, camera, and spectatorJanuary 23, 2009

The Future of Education: Reimagining Our Schools from the Ground Up
- ISBN: 978 0 300 11046 3
- featured in: A “history” of education from 2010 to 2060January 27, 2009

Beautiful Monsters: Imagining the Classic in Musical Media
- ISBN: 978 0 520 22897 9 hc
- featured in: How we experience a stylistically unpredictable, mass-mediated aural worldFebruary 20, 2009

Dreaming the English Renaissance: Politics and Desire in Court and Culture
- ISBN: 978 1 4039 6089 4 hb
- featured in: Early modern England through a history of dreamsMarch 6, 2009

Weather Matters: An American Cultural History since 1900
- ISBN: 978 0 7006 1611 4
- featured in: How we perceive, manage, and market the weatherApril 10, 2009

Selling the American Way: U.S. Propaganda and the Cold War
- ISBN: 978 0 8122 4082 5
- featured in: What role international perceptions of democratic capitalism had in the collapse of communismApril 14, 2009

Fresh: A Perishable History
- ISBN: 978 0 674 03291 0
- featured in: The farther we get from our food, the more we want to know that it’s really freshApril 17, 2009

Andean Cocaine: The Making of a Global Drug
- ISBN: 978 0807859056 pb
- featured in: Cocaine’s first full-length biography
June 26, 2009

On Location in Cuba: Street Filmmaking during Times of Transition
- ISBN: 978 0807859407
- featured in: Tracking the transformation of a national cinema into a transnational audiovisual practiceJuly 6, 2009

Newlyweds on Tour: Honeymooning in Nineteenth-Century America
- ISBN: 978 1584657736
- featured in: The honeymoon helped to consummate the romance of consumptionSeptember 28, 2009

Hip-Hop Revolution: The Culture and Politics of Rap
- ISBN: 978 0 7006 1547 6 hb
- featured in: Laypeople will be surprised by the very diversity of the hip-hop communitySeptember 30, 2009

Questioning the Veil: Open Letters to Muslim Women
- ISBN: 978 0 691 13818 3
- featured in: Reflection on the necessity to depoliticize the veilOctober 5, 2009

Why We Disagree About Climate Change: Understanding Controversy, Inaction and Opportunity
- ISBN: 978 0521727327
- featured in: Climate change in a more creative and less pejorative discourseOctober 9, 2009

Dreams and Experience in Classical Antiquity
- ISBN: 978 0674032972
- featured in: We do not know why we dream, but this is what our intellectual ancestors had to sayOctober 14, 2009

Prosperity for All: Consumer Activism in an Era of Globalization
- ISBN: 978 0801475078 pb
- featured in: Who should get to participate in consumer societyOctober 19, 2009

Islamic Science and the Making of the European Renaissance
- ISBN: 978 0262195577
- featured in: Why, and how, Islamic science was born and grew and taken up in EuropeOctober 23, 2009

Buying Power: A History of Consumer Activism in America
- ISBN: 978 0 226 29865 8
- featured in: On the history, logic, and morality of consumer activismOctober 26, 2009

Field Notes from Elsewhere: Reflections on Dying and Living
- ISBN: 978 0231147804
- featured in: Abstract ideas, concrete experiences, and life dilemmas in the form of a philosophical memoirOctober 30, 2009

The Merchant Houses of Mocha: Trade and Architecture in an Indian Ocean Port
- ISBN: 978 0295989112
- featured in: Reconstructing the late 17th and early 18th centuries of a now-ruined cityNovember 20, 2009

Household Gods: The British and their Possessions
- ISBN: 978 0300112139
- featured in: Modern consumer society has its roots in early nineteenth-century religious fervorDecember 9, 2009

Everything but the Coffee: Learning about America from Starbucks
- ISBN: 978 0 520 26106 8
- featured in: Corporate powers, posing as public service providers, have taken advantage of the privatization of lifeJanuary 18, 2010

The Urban Spectator: American Concept Cities from Kodak to Google
- ISBN: 978 1584658030
- featured in: Media affect the nature of experience in and the physical layout of citiesMarch 8, 2010

Lost to the Collective: Suicide and the Promise of Soviet Socialism, 1921-1929
- ISBN: 978 0801447662
- featured in: Soviet Suicide, the Soviet Individual, Soviet SocietyMarch 12, 2010

Mark Twain’s Other Woman: The Hidden Story of His Final Years
- ISBN: 978 0 307 27344 4
- featured in: A story that Mark Twain was determined no one would ever tellMarch 15, 2010

Children’s Literature: A Reader’s History from Aesop to Harry Potter
- ISBN: 978 0226473017
- featured in: The best dreams come from having been read to sleepMay 17, 2010

The Idea of Galicia: History and Fantasy in Habsburg Political Culture
- ISBN: 978 0804762670
- featured in: Geopolitical space may survive in consciousness even after vanishing from the mapAugust 16, 2010