Consumer society in American history
Subtitle: a reader
By: edited, with an introduction and bibliographic essay, by Lawrence B. Glickman.
Contributors: Glickman, Lawrence B., 1963-
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Ithaca, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 420
Subjects: Consumption (Economics) -- United States -- History
Description: "Consumption has often been called America's true national pastime. From the earliest European explorers trading with Native Americans to today's Internet shoppers, consumerism has driven American society. This volume offers the most comprehensive and incisive exploration of American consumer history to date.

The first book on this topic to span the four centuries from the colonial era to the present, and the first to propose theoretical frameworks, the volume brings consumer society to the center of American history. Indeed, its authors demonstrate the many ways their research enhances knowledge of a broad range of historical topics, such as politics, labor ideology, immigrant life, and race, gender, and class relations."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : Born to shop? Consumer history and American history / Lawrence B. Glickman; title: Consumer / Raymond Williams; title: Consuming goods and the good of consuming / Colin Campbell; title: Consumer society / Jean Baudrillard; title: What is an economy for? / James Fallows; title: An environmentalist's perspective on consumer society / Alan Durning; title: The first consumer revolution / James Axtell; title: Narrative of commercial life : consumption, ideology, and community on the eve of the American revolution / T.H. Breen; title: Consumption in early modern social thought / Joyce Appleby; title: Encountering mass culture at the grassroots : the experience of Chicago workers in the 1920s / Lizabeth Cohen; title: Familiar sounds of change : music and the growth of mass culture / George Sanchez; title: From scarcity to abundance : the immigrant as consumer / Andrew Heinze; title: Consuming brotherhood : men's culture, style and recreation as consumer culture, 1880-1930 / Mark A. Swiencicki; title: "Don't buy where you can't work" / Cheryl Greenberg; title: The 'work' ethic and 'leisure' activity : the hot rod in post-war America / H.F. Moorhouse; title: The commodity gap : consumerism and the modern home / Elaine Tyler May; title: The revolution will be marketed : American corporations and black consumers during the 1960s / Robert E. Weems, Jr.; title: All work and no play. It doesn't pay / Juliet B. Schor; title: When high wage jobs are gone, who will buy what we make? / Kim Moody; title: The green consumer / John Elkington, Julia Hailes, and Joel Makower; title: Delectable materialism : second thoughts on consumer culture / Michael Schudson; title: The tyranny of choice / Steven Waldman; title: The pleasures of eating / Wendell Berry; title: Coming up for air : consumer culture in historical perpsective / Jean-Christophe Agnew.