All-Consuming Century Why Commercialism Won in Modern America

Name: All-Consuming Century Why Commercialism Won in Modern America
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ISBN: 9780231113137

ISBN-10: 0231113137

ISBN-13: 9780231113137

Edition: 2002

Authors: Gary Cross

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The victory of consumerism in America was not a foregone conclusion. The United States has traditionally been home to the most aggressive and thoughtful critics of consumption such as Puritanism and Prohibition.

Book details

List price: $34.00
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Publication date: 4/3/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 352
Size: 0.60" wide x 0.89" long x 0.08" tall
Weight: 1.210

Timothy J. Motley is associate professor in the Collum Program for Molecular Systematics at The New York Botanical Garden.Nyree Zerega is the director of the Plant Biology and Conservation Program at Northwestern University and the Chicago Botanic Garden.Hugh Cross is a postdoctoral researcher at the National Herbarium of the Netherlands, Leiden University.



Preface



The Irony of the Century



Setting the Course, 1900-1930



Promises of More, 1930-1960



Coping with Abundance



A New Consumerism, 1960-1980



Markets Triumphant, 1980-2000



An Ambiguous Legacy


Notes


Index