The politics of consumption : material culture and citizenship in Europe and America /
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| Imprint: | Oxford : Berg, 2001. |
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| Description: | x, 310 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Leisure, consumption and culture Leisure, consumption, and culture. |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4504200 |
Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgments
- Notes on Contributors
- 1. Material Politics: an Introduction
- 2. What is Rum? the Politics of Consumption in the French Revolution
- 3. Social Opulence, Private Asceticism: Ideas of Consumption in Early Socialist Thought
- 4. The Material Politics of Natural Monopoly: Consuming Gas in Victorian Britain
- 5. Scotch Drapers and the Politics of Modernity: Gender, Class and National Identity in the Victorian Tally Trade
- 6. 'National Taste?' Citizenship Law, State Form, and Everyday Aesthetics in Modern France and Germany, 1920-1940
- 7. Bread, Milk and Democracy: Consumption and Citizenship in Twentieth-Century Britain
- 8. Enticement and Deprivation: the Regulation of Consumption in Pre-War Nazi Germany
- 9. Negotiating Consumption in a Dictatorship: Consumption Politics in the Gdr in the 1950s and 1960s
- 10. Citizens and Consumers in the United States in the Century of Mass Consumption
- 11. The Politics of Plenty in the Twentieth-Century United States
- 12. Consumer Politics in Post-War Britain
- 13. Strategies of Consumer-Group Mobilization: France and Germany in the 1970s
- 14. Corralling Consumer Culture: Shifting Rationales for American State Intervention in Free Markets
- Index