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"A Token of My Affection shows in detail how the evolution of the greeting card reveals the fundamental power of economic organization to enable and constrain experiences of longing, status, desire, social connectedness, and love and to structure and partially determine the most private, internal, and intimate of feelings." "Beautifully illustrated, A Token of My Affection follows the development of the modern greeting card industry from the 1840s, as a way of recovering that most elusive of things - the emotional subjectivity of another age. Barry Shank charts the evolution of the greeting card from an afterthought to a traditional printing and stationery business in the mid-nineteenth century to a multibillion-dollar industry a hundred years later."--BOOK JACKET.
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Social life and customs, Consumption (Economics), Greeting cards industry, Business etiquette, History, Histoire, Kulturwirtschaft, Affaires, Cartes de v¿ux, Consommation (Economie politique), Savoir-vivre, Manners and customs, M¿urs et coutumes, Gru©karte, Industrie, Greeting cards, United states, social life and customsPlaces
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A Token of My Affection: Greeting Cards and American Business Culture (Popular Cultures, Everyday Lives)
June 9, 2006, Columbia University Press
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A Token of My Affection: Greeting Cards and American Business Culture (Popular Cultures, Everyday Lives)
November 30, 2004, Columbia University Press
Hardcover
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Token of My Affection: Greeting Cards and American Business Culture
2004, Columbia University Press
in English
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A token of my affection: greeting cards and American business culture
2004, Columbia University Press
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"In his lecture notes for October 16, 1848, David Berdan, a young instructor in linguistics at Brunswick College in New Jersey, carefully formulated his understanding of the crucial distinction between thoughts and language."
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