- Overview
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It looks at the history of humanity in a private and multilayered manner through the familiar objects and space that no historian has ever noticed, and through the human behavior and motive of ‘consumption,’ and tells the history in which ‘human’ and ‘life’ are vividly alive.
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This book examines not only the history of merchandise that has enriched the basic human life from the modern times to the present day, but also the history of modern sales methods and spaces such as drug peddlers, door-to-door sales, department stores and shopping malls. It faces the long history of resistance, liberation, and solidarity hidden behind 'consumption' through the merchandise influenced by imperialism, or acts such as a boycott. The eye-catching 200 pictures and photographs included in the book vividly describe the modern and contemporary consumer culture.
In addition, the main subject, ‘the current situation and prospect of the Western consumption history ’ organizes the current situation of Western research into consumption history unfamiliar to Korea, and explores the possibility of consumption history that may expand the horizon of history. The explosive growth of the research into the consumption history in the 1980s clearly showed the critical mind of the postmodern history that was disregarded by modern history, and the academic topography transcending borders, thereby becoming an area of advanced research. Although we still have mounting problems and issues such as the unclear definition and scope of consumption and the task of convergence between history and other disciplines, professor Seol hye-sim points out that such problems are the characteristics and potential of consumption history. Consumption is the topic of the most participatory in reality and is a leading topic in that it discovers the starting point to oppose global capitalism or focuses on other forms of solidarity and networks that transcend countries, ethnic groups and classes. It examines the private behavior and motive of humans through consumption that history has not noticed, and the social effects that they brought about, thereby revealing a more colorful history of humanity.
- About the Author
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Seol Hyesim
The writer graduated from Yonsei University with a degree in history and earned a doctorate at UC Irvine with her study on "the commercialization of British hot springs from the 16th to the 17th century." She is now a history professor at Yonsei University. She believes that everything in our lives can be the subject of history, and constantly tries to communicate with readers on the topics that are familiar but not easily encountered in history books, with a focus on people’s lives.
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