Consumer Society in American History A Reader

Name: Consumer Society in American History A Reader
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ISBN: 9780801484865

ISBN-10: 0801484863

ISBN-13: 9780801484865

Edition: 1999

Authors: Lawrence B. Glickman

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This volume offers the most comprehensive and incisive exploration American consumer history to date. It is the first book on this topic to span the four centuries from the colonial era to the present, and to propose theoretical frameworks.

Book details

List price: $37.95
Copyright year: 1999
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Publication date: 10/15/1999
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 432
Size: 6.10" wide x 9.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.342
Language: English



Preface


Introduction: Born to Shop? Consumer History and American History




Frameworks and Definitions



Consumer




Consuming Goods and the Good of Consuming




Consumer Society




What Is an Economy For?




An Environmentalist's Perspective on Consumer Society




Roots of American Consumer Society



The First Consumer Revolution




Narrative of Commerical Life: Consumption, Ideology, and Community on the Eve of the American Revolution




Consumption in Early Modern Social Thought




Class, Gender, and Modernity, 1880-1940



Encountering Mass Culture at the Grassroots: The Experience of Chicago Workers in the 1920s




Familiar Sounds of Change: Music and the Growth of Mass Culture




From Scarcity to Abundance: The Immigrant as Consumer




Consuming Brotherhood: Men's Culture, Style and Recreation as Consumer Culture, 1880-1930




"Don't Buy Where You Can't Work"




Consumerism Since World War II



The 'Work' Ethic and 'Leisure' Activity: The Hot Rod in Post-War America




The Commodity Gap: Consumerism and the Modern Home




The Revolution Will be Marketed: American Corporations and Black Consumers During the 1960s




All Work and No Play. It Doesn't Pay




When High Wage Jobs Are Gone, Who Will Buy What We Make?




The Green Consumer




Critiques and Celebrations



Delectable Materialism: Second Thoughts on Consumer Culture




The Tyranny of Choice




The Pleasures of Eating




Coming Up for Air: Consumer Culture in Historical Perspective



Bibliographic Essay



Contributors


Index