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Simon Winchester | a History of Precision Engineering and the Making of the Modern World

Hidden Forces

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The Land of Desire

Simon Winchester: I'd read this book by, can't remember the name of the author, but I read this book called The Land of Desire. It's a history of consumer capitalism from the late 19th century to the early 20th. That period in the last quarter of the 1800s of the 19th century and then towards the beginning of the 20th century, there was such a reorganization. DK: Exactly what I was thinking about when you were saying that. And that was my episode with Simon Winchester. We'll see you next week.

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