Bright Modernity (eBook)

Regina Lee Blaszczyk is Leadership Chair in the History of Business and Society at the University of Leeds, UK.  Her nine books include several award-winning titles: Imagining Consumers: Design and Innovation from Wedgwood to Corning; Producing Fashion: Commerce, Culture, and Consumers (editor); and The Color Revolution. Uwe Spiekermann teaches economic and social history at the University of Göttingen. His research interests in German and American history include consumption, retailing, nutrition, and knowledge. He has published extensively, including Decoding Modern Consumer Societies (coeditor) and The Rise of Marketing and Market Research (coeditor).

I. Foundations: Industry and Education1. Coloring the World: Marketing German Dyestuffs in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries2. Learning to See with Milton BradleyII. Gender and Color3. “Real Men Wear Pink?” A Gender History of Color       4. New Words and Fanciful Names: Dyes, Color, and Fashion in the Mid-Nineteenth Century        5. Let’s Go Shopping with Charles Sanders Peirce: Color Scientists as Consumers of ColorIII. Ringmasters to the Rainbow: Color Inventions and Visual Culture6. Movies Meet the Rainbow     7. Glamour Pink: The Marketing of Residential Electric Lighting in the Age of Color, 1920s–1950s8. Life in Color: Life Magazine and the Color Reproduction of Works of ArtIV. Predicting the Rainbow9. The Color Schemers: American Color Practice in Britain, 1920s–1960s10. Modeurop: Using Color to Unify the European Shoe and Leather Industry 11. Who Decides the Color of the Season? How the Première Vision Trade Show Changed Fashion Culture